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The fee or duty paid for the privilege of using a wharf for loading or unloading goods; pierage, collectively; quayage.

Wharfage; quayage.

Same as Wharfage. Smart.

) A bar, as of sand, at the mouth of, or in, a port. -- Port charges (Com.), charges, as wharfage, etc., to which a ship or its cargo is subjected in a harbor. -- Port of entry, a harbor where a customhouse is established for the legal entry of merchandise. -- Port toll (Law), a payment made for the privilege of bri…

Wharfage. [Also keyage.]