tunnage
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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The difficulty, which the commodore principally apprehended, related to the duty usually paid by all ships in the river of Canton, according to their tunnage.
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This was done by laying duties on tunnage.
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Our government having become a party to this agreement, discriminating tunnage duties have been abolished.
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