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dunnage
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dunnage \Dun"nage\, n. [Cf. Dun a mound.] (Naut.) Fagots, boughs, or loose materials of any kind, laid on the bottom of the hold for the cargo to rest upon to prevent injury by water, or stowed among casks and other cargo to prevent their motion.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context chiefly transport English) Scrap material, often wood, used to fill spaces to prevent the shifting of more valuable items during transport#Noun, or underneath large or heavy items to raise them slightly above the ground, in order to protect from chafing and wet#Noun. 2 Personal effects; baggage.
Wikipedia
In the technical sense treated here, dunnage is inexpensive or waste material used to load and secure cargo during transportation; more loosely, it refers to miscellaneous baggage, brought along during travel.
Usage examples of "dunnage".
Hackett, when you return to the Pelorus, please send my dunnage ashore and have one of your men dump it in this veranda.
I left it to her to send my dunnage by Jeddy and Tommy Bickford on the morning stagecoach, after which I said good-bye to her and Sarah and aunt Cynthy and set out to walk the twenty-six miles to Portland, Nathan going with me for company, and Pinky sticking his nose in every stump along the road and Iluttering his tail with delight at being off once more.
When I packed away my good blue coat in my chest that night I did a thing I had been in two minds about doing since Jeddy and Tommy Bickford had brought my dunnage from Arundel.
Jotham Carr ran past, to turn my cabin into a hospital, Tommy Bickford at his heels to stow my dunnage and bring me my fowling piece.
Sharpe stood by the hatch and watched Braithwaite's lantern bob as the secretary went slowly down the ladder, and then went aft toward the place where the officers' dunnage was stored.
Its forward bulkhead was formed by the shelves where the officers' empty dunnage was stored and where Malachi Braithwaite had sought the memorandum on the day of his death, and the floor of the hole was made by the steeply sloping sides of the ship, and though Captain Chase had ordered that a patch of old sailcloth be placed in the hole to provide a rudimentary comfort, Lord William and Lady Grace were still forced to perch uncomfortably against the plank slopes beneath the small hatch that led to the gunroom on the orlop deck above.
Mr Pullings, a bosun's chair, if you please, a whip for the dunnage, and pass the word for the children.