dockage
- n a fee charged for a vessel to use a dock
- n landing in a harbor next to a pier where ships are loaded and unloaded or repaired; may have gates to let water in or out
- n the act of securing an arriving vessel with ropes
- When the Miami wing of the Civil Air Patrol first got a bill for dockage of a 64-ft.
- On one occasion he flew to Brazil, found a Naval transport station sorely in need of dockage equipment.
- Freeports in Texas, New York, Florida and Pennsylvania were so called because they had no dockage charges.