Definitions for primage

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primage pri·mage

Spelling: [prahy-mij]

IPA: /ˈpraɪ mɪdʒ/

Primage is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 234 anagrams from letters in primage (aegimpr).

Definitions for primage

noun

1. a small allowance formerly paid by a shipper to the master and crew of a vessel for the loading and care of the goods: now charged with the freight and retained by the shipowner.

Origin of primage

1530-40; Anglo-Latin primāgium; see prime, -age

Examples for primage

They sailed for nominal wages and primage, or five per cent of the gross freight paid the vessel.

Five thousand dollars there was, and I sent it to the widow along with his primage.

A word sometimes used for primage, or the trifling payment received by the master of a ship for care of goods.