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The occupation of a pilot
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pilotage
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Word definitions for pilotage in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pilotage \Pi"lot*age\, n. [Cf. F. pilotage.] The pilot's skill or knowledge, as of coasts, rocks, bars, and channels. [Obs.] --Sir W. Raleigh. The compensation made or allowed to a pilot. Guidance, as by a pilot. --Sir W. Scott.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the guidance of ships or airplanes from place to place [syn: navigation , piloting ] the occupation of a pilot [syn: piloting ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 the use of landmarks to guide a vessel or aircraft to its destination 2 the occupation of a pilot 3 the fee paid to a pilot
Usage examples of pilotage.
In his advice given to the New England plantation in his "Advertisements" he says: "Now as his Majesty has made you custome-free for seven yeares, have a care that all your countrymen shall come to trade with you, be not troubled with pilotage, boyage, ancorage, wharfage, custome, or any such tricks as hath been lately used in most of our plantations, where they would be Kings before their folly.
In his advice given to the New England plantation in his "Advertisements" he says: "Now as his Majesty has made you custome-free for seven yeares, have a care that all your countrymen shall come to trade with you, be not troubled with pilotage, boyage, ancorage, wharfage, custome, or any such tricks as hath been lately used in most of our plantations, where they would be Kings before their folly.
A little conversation with these gentlemen dispelled all the captain's fears, and the Beaver crossing the bar under their pilotage, anchored safely in Baker's Bay.
We must have a manifest so that we can calculate your pilotage payments, harbor dues, wharfage, light fees, and so on.
Trinity House, as Ryan well knew, was and is responsible for the relief of distressed and aged master mariners, but it also keeps records of all merchant seamen in distress or requiring any kind of help - all the old men with a life at sea behind them and nothing in front - together with its work in erecting and maintaining all lightships and lighthouses and being the chief pilotage authority in Britain.