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dunnage

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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.

Other meanings

2. noun

A charge levied for materials or equipment left on site.

3. noun

Personal effects; baggage.

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