dunnage

[ duhn-ij ]

noun

1. baggage or personal effects.
2. loose material laid beneath or wedged among objects carried by ship or rail to prevent injury from chafing or moisture, or to provide ventilation.

verb (used with object)

, dun·naged, dun·nag·ing.

1. to cover or pack with dunnage.

dunnage

/ ˈdʌnɪdʒ /

noun

1. loose material used for packing cargo

Word History and Origins

Origin of dunnage¹

1615–25; earlier dynnage; compare Anglo-Latin dennagium dunnage; of obscure origin

Word History and Origins

Origin of dunnage¹

C14: of uncertain origin

Example Sentences

Most noteworthy is the materiality of the show, best embodied by Russell Craig’s “Real Fake,” an installation of Louis Vuitton bags with a zip drawn open by a dog, and Jared Owens’s “Panopticon” — a painting/plinth pair featuring a pig feed burlap sack, steel cables and hooks, reclaimed dunnage, and even soil from the prison yard of the Federal Correctional Institution Fairton in New Jersey.

From New York Times

And according to the SBA, the manufacturer International Dunnage of Thunderbolt, Ga., saved more than 500 jobs.

From Washington Post

The data also claimed that International Dunnage, a manufacturer in Thunderbolt, Ga., saved more than 500 jobs.

From Washington Post

In “The Dressmaker,” Kate Winslet plays Myrtle “Tilly” Dunnage, a seamstress who returns to her tiny Australian home town, nursing a lifelong grudge against her former neighbors and hoisting a Singer sewing machine like a six-shooter.

From Washington Post

An outbound Liberian freighter, the Mimosa, empty except for its wooden packing “dunnage,” had collided with a Liberian tanker, the Burmah Agate, loaded with more than 300,000 barrels of Ni­ger­ian crude.

From Washington Post