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Tonnage vs Tannage - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between tonnage and tannage

is that tonnage is the number of tons of water that a floating ship displaces while tannage is the act, operation, or result of tanning; a tanning.

tonnage

English

Noun

(wikipedia tonnage)
  • The number of tons of water that a floating ship displaces.
  • The capacity of a ship's hold etc in units of 100 cubic feet.
  • The number of tons of bombs dropped in a particular region over a particular period of time.
  • A charge made on each ton of cargo when landed etc.
  • The total shipping of a fleet or nation.

    • Coordinate terms

    * (charge per ton) cranage, demurrage, shippage, shorage, wharfage

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    tannage

    English

    Noun

  • The act, operation, or result of tanning; a tanning.
  • * 1845 , , The Flight of the Duchess'', 1994, Tim Cook (editor), ''The Works of Robert Browning , page 340,
    • They should have got his cheek fresh tannage / Such a day as to-day in the merry sunshine! / Had they stuck on his fist a rough-foot merlin!
  • * 1938 , US Depoartment of Agriculture, Technical Bulletin , Issues 551-575, page 36,
    • After the layer tannage was completed, the crops and bellies from the 44 hides were reassembled and handled as a unit in each subsequent process until finished.
  • * 1954 , Journal of the Royal Society of Arts , Volume 102, page 850,
    • With the exception of spruce bark, which cannot be considered to be a typical tannin, all the tannins give degrees of tannage in the neighbourhood of 50.
  • * 2009 , National Institute of Industrial Research Board Of Consultants & Engineers, Leather Processing & Tanning Technology Handbook , India, page 37,
    • The possible combined tannages' are numerous but are, in general, limited to the light leathers. Combination ' tannages are very ancient.