[], (Noun)

Definitions:
- Originally: a customary payment to the master and crew of a ship for loading and taking care of the cargo. In later use also: a percentage added to a freight charge to cover the cost of loading or unloading a ship.

- A duty paid to the local Trinity House society on goods brought into a particular port, especially Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

- An additional or special customs duty on imported goods.


Phrases:

Origin:
late 15th century. Apparently from post-classical Latin primagium payment for loading or unloading, of uncertain origin

[], (Noun)

Definitions:
- Water present as droplets suspended in the steam from a boiler; the amount of this.


Phrases:

Origin:
late 19th century. From prime + -age. Compare French primage passage of water in the form of spray into the cylinder of an engine boiler, along with the steam, the amount of water present in this form