cranage

From Middle English cranage, from crane +‎ -age.

cranage (countable and uncountable, plural cranages)

1. The use of a crane to hoist goods.
   • 1738, William Markham, A General Introduction to Trade and Business:

     If Goods are to be brought Home to your own House , there are Charges for Weighage, Cranage, Porterage, Wharfage, Cartage, Lighterage, &c.

   • 2020 November 18, Industry Insider, “Improving rail connectivity”, in Rail, page 68:

     On the short sea route there was continued demand for non-containerised traffic, and a trans-shipment depot was established by an independent haulier at Stranraer in 1979, with overhead cranage to handle steel products from Teesside that justified running a daily Speedlink service from north east England.

2. Fees paid for use of the crane.

• demurrage, shippage, shorage, tonnage, wharfage

• carnage

From crane +‎ -age.

• IPA^(key): /ˌkraːˈnaːd͡ʒ(ə)/

cranage (uncountable)

1. (rare) cranage; the money resulting from it.

• English: cranage

• “crānāǧe, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-07.