[f. YARD sb.1 + -AGE.] The use of or charge for a yard in which commodities are stored, cattle inclosed, or the like.
1889. Baltimore Sun, in Public Opinion, 16 Feb. The object of the company … is to regulate the price of pig-iron by holding it in stock in yards leased by the company at the furnaces…. Each furnace is to turn over all its product to the company,… the furnace-master paying the company yardage at the rate of 25 cents per ton.
