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Word of the Day: Catachrestical

Groundage [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A tax paid by a ship for standing in port.

2. Fishing without a float, with a bullet placed a few inches from the hook.

3. A sapling of ash; a young shoot from the stump of an ash.

4. Bait for fish which sinks to the bottom of the water.

5. The first or lower floor of a house. But the English call the second floor from the ground the first floor.

Groundage [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A local tax paid by a ship for the ground or space it occupies while in port.