Dunnage in a sentence

Dunnage meaning

1. Scrap material, often wood, used to fill spaces to prevent the shifting of more valuable items during transport, or underneath large or heavy items to raise them slightly above the ground, in order to protect from chafing and wet.
2. A charge levied for materials or equipment left on site.
3. Personal effects; baggage.

Using Dunnage

• The main meaning on this page is: Scrap material, often wood, used to fill spaces to prevent the shifting of more valuable items during transport, or underneath large or heavy items to raise them slightly above the ground, in order to protect from chafing and wet. | A charge levied for materials or equipment left on site. | Personal effects; baggage.

Context around Dunnage

• Average sentence length in these examples: 21.5 words
• Position in the sentence: 1 start, 1 middle, 0 end
• Sentence types: 2 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

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Corpus analysis for Dunnage

• In this selection, "dunnage" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 21.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
• Around the word, plastic and racks stand out and add context to how "dunnage" is used.
• Recognizable usage signals include dunnage racks are and replace plastic dunnage like air. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
• By corpus frequency, "dunnage" sits close to words such as aabc, aacr and aacsb, which helps place it inside the broader word index.