different between lastage vs wastage

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.

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

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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

English

Etymology

waste +? -age

Noun

wastage (countable and uncountable, plural wastages)

1. (uncountable) The amount or proportion of something that is wasted or lost by deterioration or other natural process.

   The average wastage is 1.5% in the grocery department.

   Wastage from the reservoir by evaporation is estimated at ...

2. (uncountable) The periodical turnover of personnel in an organisation by death, retirement or resignation, as perceived by those aspiring to promotion or appointment in the organisation.
3. (countable) Anything lost by wear or waste.
4. (uncountable) Goods that are damaged, out of date, reduced, or generally unsaleable, which are destined to be thrown away and which are written off as a loss.
5. (hunting, countable) The act of abandoning animal carcasses or parts, usually illegal.