primage

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primage - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Primage \Pri"mage\ (?; 48), n. [F.] (Com.)
     A charge in addition to the freight; originally, a gratuity
     to the captain for his particular care of the goods
     (sometimes called hat money), but now belonging to the
     owners or freighters of the vessel, unless by special
     agreement the whole or part is assigned to the captain.
     --Homans.
     [1913 Webster]

primage - Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :

  PRIMAGE, merc. law. A duty payable to the master and mariner of a ship or 
  vessel; to the master for the use of his cables and ropes to discharge the 
  goods of the merchant; to the mariners for lading and unlading in any port 
  or haven. Merch. Dict. h.t.; Abb. on Ship. 270. 
       2. This payment appears to be of very ancient date, and to be variously 
  regulated in different voyages and trades. It is sometimes called the 
  master's hat money. 3 Chit. Com. Law, 431.