Associations to the word «Lighterage»

Wiktionary

LIGHTERAGE, noun. The fee paid for conveyance of goods on a lighter.
LIGHTERAGE, noun. The act of unloading into a lighter, or of conveying by a lighter.

Dictionary definition

LIGHTERAGE, noun. The fee charged for carrying goods in lighters.
LIGHTERAGE, noun. The transportation of goods on a lighter.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne