different between lactage vs lastage

English

Noun

lactage (usually uncountable, plural lactages)

1. (obsolete) The food produced from animal lactation; milk and dairy products.

Related terms

• lactic

English

Etymology

From lestage (“ballasting”), from lest (“ballast”), or Latin lastagium, lestagium. See last (“a load”).

Noun

lastage (countable and uncountable, plural lastages)

1. (obsolete) A duty exacted, in some fairs or markets, for the right to carry things where one will.
2. (obsolete) A tax on wares sold by the last.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Cowell to this entry?)

3. (obsolete) The lading of a ship; ballast.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Spelman to this entry?)

4. (obsolete) Room for stowing goods, as in a ship.

Anagrams

• agelast, algates, tag sale

Old French

Noun

lastage m (oblique plural lastages, nominative singular lastages, nominative plural lastage)

1. cargo (of a watercraft)

   Que toutes maneres de niefs audit port accustumez de venir hors Engleterre […] portent oveques eux tout lour lastage

   All manners of ship at the aforementioned port were used to going outside of England […] carried with them all their cargo

2. dock where loading occurs
3. lastage (taxation)

Descendants

• French: lestage