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Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

lowage

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
lowage
IPA
10
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A charge on shipping.

Archaic; Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

Etymology

Possibly from the French adjective louage (“hiring”) (Oxford English Dictionary), or a corruption of levage (Calvert, 1978).

Usage

Inflected Forms

lowages (plural)

Questions

What does lowage mean?
A charge on shipping.
Where does lowage come from?
Possibly from the French adjective louage (“hiring”) (Oxford English Dictionary), or a corruption of levage (Calvert, 1978).

How to pronounce lowage

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