dunnage
Americannoun
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baggage or personal effects.
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loose material laid beneath or wedged among objects carried by ship or rail to prevent injury from chafing or moisture, or to provide ventilation.
verb (used with object)
noun
Etymology
Origin of dunnage
1615–25; earlier dynnage; compare Anglo-Latin dennagium dunnage; of obscure origin
Example Sentences
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Passengers groped about their staterooms in search of fur coats; the cooks burned hatch covers and dunnage in their stoves.
From Time Magazine Archive
But anybody who can tell a top carling from a garboard strake will want a copy of Spring Tides in his dunnage the next time he does a windward dozen.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was part of his possessions brought out in the dunnage bag from Antone's cigar store.
From The Ice Pilot by Leverage, Henry
Happy the choice of the Virginian mother who could not spare her boy on that summer day, and sent aboard the man-of-war in Potomac's stream for his dunnage!
From The Ifs of History by Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar
Strips of bagging, handspikes, clots of oil, and dunnage wood, came thicker and thicker, and Jefferson raised his voice.
From For Jacinta by Bindloss, Harold
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