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Definition: DUNNAGE |
DUNNAGENoun1. Fagots, boughs, or loose materials of any kind, laid on the bottom of the hold for the cargo to rest upon to prevent injury by water, or stowed among casks and other cargo to prevent their motion. |
Date "DUNNAGE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1840. (references) |
Note: Dunnage \Dun"nage\, noun. [Compare to Dun mound.]. (Websters 1913) |
"DUNNAGE" is a common misspelling or typo for: damage, donate, dunning, tonnage. |
| Domain | Definition |
Building & Civil Engineering | Strips of wood placed between lots of produce in order to permit air circulation. Source: European Union. (references) |
Economics | Materials placed around cargo to prevent shifting or damage while in transit. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | Timber, generally of poor quality, used for supporting cargo in ships, load in goods waggons or stacks of timber or other material in storage. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: DUNNAGE |
| English words defined with "DUNNAGE": Fardage. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "DUNNAGE": CAR BLOCKER, carpenter, wooden-tank erecting ♦ TANK ERECTOR. (references) |
| "DUNNAGE" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "DUNNAGE" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
dunnage | 42 |
dunnage foam | 19 |
dunnage bag | 15 |
dunnage rack | 11 |
bulk dunnage packaging | 5 |
air bag dunnage | 5 |
dunnage fruit timber | 3 |
air cordstrap dunnage inflated secure | 3 |
air bag container dunnage in load securing | 3 |
air bag container dunnage glass inflatable secure | 3 |
air bag cargo dunnage loads | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "DUNNAGE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | stuvholt, afstandsribber. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | stuwhout (billet), afstandslatten. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | välipuu (crosser, dominated, fillet, intermediate, piling stick, piling strip, pin, stacking strip, sticker, strip, subdominant), telapuu (bearer, bolster, crosser, fillet, piling stick, piling strip, pin, stacking strip, sticker, strip), tapulointipuut. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | lattis d'arrimage, lattes d'arrimage, fardage, bois de fardage, bois d'arrimage, bardis. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Stapelholz, Abstandsholz. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ξυλεία φεδρώματος, πανιόλα φορτίου, υπόστρωμα φορτίου. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מטען (baggage, burden, cargo, charge, dock, freight, lading, load, luggage, stowage), תמכת מטען. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | paglioli, listelli di aerazione. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | "개. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | fuygh eeghtyragh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | unnageday grade (drag, grate, grid, gridiron, grill, grille, lattice, rail, railing, screen), esteiras, esteira (furrow, mat, track), espaçadores (spacers). (various references) подстилка под груз. (various references) material a cargar, madera de cajerío (box timber, box wood, case timber, case wood), entramado de estiba, balastro de madera. (various references) stuvningsvirke, stuvningsgods, ströläkt, strö (bedding, brancard, strew), ribb (edging, rand), läkt (lath). (various references) закріплення вантажу. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "DUNNAGE": dunnages. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-g-n-n-u" | |
-1 letter: augend, duenna, gunned, unaged. | |
-2 letters: genua, nudge. | |
-3 letters: aged, ague, dang, dean, dune, dung, egad, gaed, gaen, gane, gaud, gaun, genu, guan, gude, nude, unde. | |
-4 letters: age, and, ane, dag, den, due, dug, dun, eau, end, eng, gad, gae, gan, ged, gen, gnu, gun, nae, nag, nan, nun. | |
-5 letters: ad, ae, ag, an, de, ed. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-g-n-n-u" | |
+1 letter: dunnages, unhanged. | |
+2 letters: guanidine, unaligned, unavenged, unbandage, unchanged, unleading, unmanaged, untangled. | |
+3 letters: daundering, denaturing, denudating, granduncle, guanidines, laundering, maundering, unassigned, unbandaged, unbandages, unenlarged, untreading. | |
+4 letters: adventuring, ensanguined, fecundating, granduncles, headhunting, languidness, nongraduate, squandering, undemanding, underacting, undereating, underlaying, underpaying, underrating, undertaking, undertaxing, undeviating, undiagnosed, unendearing, ungarnished, unmagnified, unorganized, unrewarding, unsteadying, unthreading. | |
+5 letters: dehumanizing, endeavouring, guanethidine, nongraduates, nonregulated, unchallenged, unconjugated, undercoating, undergarment, underlapping, underplaying, understating, undertakings, undervaluing, undesignated, ungerminated, unintegrated, unoxygenated. | |
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