[f. prec. sb.]
1. trans. To impose tonnage upon (see prec. 1); hence Tonnaging vbl. sb.: in quot. fig.
1644. Milton, Areop. (Arb.), 64. Nothing … but what passes through the custom-house of certain Publicans that have the tunaging and the poundaging of all free spok’n truth.
2. To have a tonnage of (so much): see prec. 4.
1850. Scoresby, Cheever’s Whalem. Adv., i. (1858), 8. Six hundred and fifty ships, barks, brigs, and schooners, tonnaging two hundred thousand tons.
1874. C. M. Scammon, Marine Mammals, 241. Provincetown’s squadron of Atlantic cruisers, in 1850, numbered sixteen vessels, which tonnaged in the aggregate 1,871 tons.
