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Certain hauling fee
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drayage
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The use of a dray. 2 A fee paid for the use of a dray.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1791, "conveyance by dray," from dray + -age . Later also in reference to the fee for such.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
In the shipping industry and logistics , drayage is the transport of goods over a short distance, often as part of a longer overall move and is typically completed in a single work shift. Some research defines it specifically as "a truck pickup from or ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Drayage \Dray"age\, n. Use of a dray. The charge, or sum paid, for the use of a dray.
Usage examples of drayage.
Neither has slept well for a Fortnight, amid the house-rocking Ponderosities of commercial Drayage, the Barrels and Sledges rumbling at all Hours over the paving-Stones, the Town on a-hammering and brick-laying itself together about them, the street-sellers' cries, the unforeseen coalescences of Sailors and Citizens anywhere in the neighboring night to sing Liberty and wreak Mischief, hoofbeats in large numbers passing beneath the Window, the cries of Beasts from the city Shambles, Philadelphia in the Dark, in an all-night Din Residents may have got accustom'd to, but which seems to the Astronomers, not yet detach'd from the liquid, dutiful lurches of the Packet thro' th' October seas, the very Mill of Hell.