different between demurrage vs wharfage

English

Etymology

1640s, from Old French demorage, from demorer (English demur), from Latin d?mor?r? (“to tarry”).

Surface etymology is demur (“delay”) +? -age, with doubled ‘r’ to clarify pronunciation and avoid ambiguity with demure.

Noun

demurrage (countable and uncountable, plural demurrages)

1. (shipping) the detention of a ship or other freight vehicle, during delayed loading or unloading
2. compensation paid for such detention
3. a charge made for exchanging currency for bullion

Antonyms

• (detention of a ship, or fee paid for it): despatch

Coordinate terms

• cranage, shippage, shorage, tonnage, wharfage

Translations

References

English

Etymology

From Middle English wharfage; equivalent to wharf +? -age.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?w??.f?d??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?w??.f?d??/
• (without the wine–whine merger) IPA^(key): /?hw??.f?d??/

Noun

wharfage (countable and uncountable, plural wharfages)

1. A dock, quay, or pier.
2. Wharfs collectively.
   • 1924, Saki “The Old Town of Pskoff” in The Square Egg and Other Sketches, London: John Lane, p. 156,^[1]

     It is pleasant to swim well out into the stream of the river, and, with one’s chin on a level with the wide stretch of water, take in a “trout’s-eye view” of the little town, ascending in tiers of wharfage, trees, grey ramparts, more trees, and clustered roofs, with the old cathedral of the Trinity poised guardian-like above the crumbling walls of the Kremlin.

3. A fee charged for using a wharf.
   • 1895, John Houston Merrill, The American and English Encyclopedia of Law, p. 100.

     If the owner of goods deposited at a wharf sells them, and gives notice to the wharfinger of such sale, on tendering the wharfage then due, he is discharged from liability for future wharfage.

Coordinate terms

• (wharf usage fee): shorage, demurrage, cranage, tonnage, shippage

Derived terms

Middle English

Alternative forms

• wharvage, wharffage, warfeage

Etymology

From wharf +? -age.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ar?fa?d?(?)/

Noun

wharfage (uncountable) (rare)

1. Utilisation of a wharf.
2. Wharfage (wharf fee)

Descendants

• English: wharfage

References

• “wharf??e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-12-12.