shorage means the right to use a shore, for example to land goods. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 90 out of 100.
Etymology
From shore + -age.
noun
- The right to use a shore, for example to land goods.“It is further insisted that there was evidence of an implied contract, inasmuch as it was proved that the defendants had, before that time, paid a bill presented by the plaintiff for shorage for other rafts, before then anchored on the same flats.”
- A fee or duty paid for such a right.“DROICT DE RIVAGE: Shorage, or Boatage; the Custome, or Toll for wine, or other wares, put vpon, or brought from, the water, by boats”