Word Meanings - DEMURRAGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The detention of a vessel by the freighter beyond the time allowed in her charter party for loading, unloading, or sailing. The allowance made to the master or owner of the ship for such delay or detention. The claim for demurrage ceases as soon

Additional info about word: DEMURRAGE

The detention of a vessel by the freighter beyond the time allowed in her charter party for loading, unloading, or sailing. The allowance made to the master or owner of the ship for such delay or detention. The claim for demurrage ceases as soon as the ship is cleared out and ready for sailing. M`Culloch. Note: The term is also applied to similar delays and allowances in land carriage, by wagons, railroads, etc.

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• OWNER
  One who owns; a rightful proprietor; one who has the legal or rightful title, whether he is the possessor or not. Shak.
• SAILBOAT
  A boat propelled by a sail or sails.
• SAILCLOTH
  Duck or canvas used in making sails.
• PARTY
  1. A part or portion. "The most party of the time." Chaucer. 2. A number of persons united in opinion or action, as distinguished from, or opposed to, the rest of a community or association; esp., one of the parts into which a people is divided
• ALLOWEDLY
  By allowance; admittedly. Shenstone.
• MASTERSHIP
  1. The state or office of a master. 2. Mastery; dominion; superior skill; superiority. Where noble youths for mastership should strive. Driden. 3. Chief work; masterpiece. Dryden. 4. An ironical title of respect. How now, seignior Launce ! what
• ALLOW
  allocare to admit as proved, to place, use; confused with OF. aloer, fr. L. allaudare to extol; ad + laudare to praise. See Local, and cf. 1. To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction. Ye allow the deeds of your fathers. Luke xi. 48. We commend
• SAILOR
  One who follows the business of navigating ships or other vessels; one who understands the practical management of ships; one of the crew of a vessel; a mariner; a common seaman. Syn. -- Mariner; seaman; seafarer. Sailor's choice. An excellent
• MASTEROUS
  Masterly. Milton.
• SAILABLE
  Capable of being sailed over; navigable; as, a sailable river.
• ALLOWER
  1. An approver or abettor. 2. One who allows or permits.
• SAILMAKER
  One whose occupation is to make or repair sails. -- Sail"mak`ing, n.
• DETENTION
  1. The act of detaining or keeping back; a withholding. 2. The state of being detained ; delay from necessity. 3. Confinement; restraint; custody. The archduke Philip . . . found himself in a sort of honorable detention at Henry's court. Hallam.
• UNLOAD
  1. To take the load from; to discharge of a load or cargo; to disburden; as, to unload a ship; to unload a beast. 2. Hence, to relieve from anything onerous. 3. To discharge or remove, as a load or a burden; as, to unload the cargo of a vessel.
• BEYOND
  1. On the further side of; in the same direction as, and further on or away than. Beyond that flaming hill. G. Fletcher. 2. At a place or time not yet reached; before. A thing beyond us, even before our death. Pope. 3. Past, out of the reach or
• PARTY-COLORED; PARTI-COLORED
  Colored with different tints; variegated; as, a party-colored flower. "Parti-colored lambs." Shak.
• OWNERLESS
  Without an owner.
• SAIL
  1. An extent of canvas or other fabric by means of which the wind is made serviceable as a power for propelling vessels through the water. Behoves him now both sail and oar. Milton. 2. Anything resembling a sail, or regarded as a sail. 3. A wing;
• LOADSTAR; LODESTAR
  A star that leads; a guiding star; esp., the polestar; the cynosure. Chaucer. " Your eyes are lodestars." Shak. The pilot can no loadstar see. Spenser.
• CLAIMABLE
  Capable of being claimed.
• CREMASTERIC
  Of or pertaining to the cremaster; as, the cremasteric artery.
• CALLOW
  1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play .
• HALLOW
  To make holy; to set apart for holy or religious use; to consecrate; to treat or keep as sacred; to reverence. "Hallowed be thy name." Matt. vi. 9. Hallow the Sabbath day, to do no work therein. Jer. xvii. 24. His secret altar touched with hallowed
• BAGGAGE MASTER
  One who has charge of the baggage at a railway station or upon a line of public travel.
• THRYFALLOW
  To plow for the third time in summer; to trifallow. Tusser.
• RECLAIMABLE
  That may be reclaimed.
• ASSAILMENT
  The act or power of assailing; attack; assault. His most frequent assailment was the headache. Johnson.
• SKYSAIL
  The sail set next above the royal. See Illust. under Sail.
• SALLOWISH
  Somewhat sallow. Dickens.
• ASSAILER
  One who assails.
• WALLOWER
  A lantern wheel; a trundle. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, wallows.
• CROWNER
  A coroner. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, crowns. Beau. & FL. 2. Etym:
• STUNSAIL
  A contraction of Studding sail. With every rag set, stunsails, sky scrapers and all. Lowell.
• WATER SAIL
  A small sail sometimes set under a studding sail or under a driver boom, and reaching nearly to the water.
• TOASTMASTER
  A person who presides at a public dinner or banquet, and announces the toasts.
• SURFACE LOADING
  The weight supported per square unit of surface; the quotient obtained by dividing the gross weight, in pounds, of a fully loaded flying machine, by the total area, in square feet, of its supporting surface.