vbl. sb. [f. WAREHOUSE v. + -ING1.] The depositing goods, etc., in a warehouse whether under bond or otherwise. Also concr., money paid for the accommodation of a warehouse.
1795. J. Phillips, Inland Navig., Add. 135. Profits arising from the warehousing and wharfage of goods.
1853. Act 16 & 17 Vict., c. 107 § 10. To provide Warehouses for the warehousing of Tobacco at the Ports.
1878. Lecky, Eng. in 18th C. (1883), I. 335. The system of warehousing, or admitting as a temporary deposit, foreign goods, free of duty, to await exportation.
b. Comb.
1800. Asiatic Ann. Reg., II. 41/1. An act passed in the last session, commonly called the ‘warehousing act.’
1817. Evans’s Parl. Deb., I. 1327. Mr. W. Pole said, the warehousing system was not thought of at the time the hon. baronet mentioned (1806).
1844. H. H. Wilson, Brit. India, I. 505. The Ministers would have been pledged to support the sale and warehousing system of the Company.
