dunnage
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.59 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "When you have got your junks wormed and laid up, take each two pieces, and stop them together; double the middle pieces, and stop them also, and clap a good stop on, to form the eye: then bring them all together upon some dunnage, to keep them up from the deck, to enable you to pass your round-about lashings:"
- "consortium of companies dedicated to finding a faster and less expensive way to produce dunnages. Dunnages are material handling parts used to hold bumpers and fenders in place when they are shipped or used in Ford's production"
- "The robot cameras and software direct the robots to unload the 40-pound parts from pallets (called "dunnage") and place them on brackets fixed to a conveyor."
- "The fact that the bakery was paying dunnage on the loaded car until May 25th and that it was not unloaded until after May 21, 1959, is proof that […]"
- "The place had the empty and musty feel and smell usual to a dwelling no longer inhabited. Everywhere was a thick litter of discarded and ragged garments, old sea-boots, leaky oilskins -- all the worthless forecastle dunnage of a long voyage."