Lastage

1. n. Room for stowing goods, as in a ship.
2. n. A duty exacted, in some fairs or markets, for the right to carry things where one will.
3. n. A tax on wares sold by the last.
4. n. The lading of a ship; also, ballast.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.