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tonnage (n.)
early 15c., "tax or duty on wine imported in tuns," from
ton
(n.1) +
-age
, and from Old French
tonnage
"duty levied on wine in casks" (c. 1300). Meaning "carrying capacity of a ship" is from 1718.
