What's the difference between baggage and dunnage?

Baggage


Definition:

  • (n.) The clothes, tents, utensils, and provisions of an army.
  • (n.) The trunks, valises, satchels, etc., which a traveler carries with him on a journey; luggage.
  • (n.) Purulent matter.
  • (n.) Trashy talk.
  • (n.) A man of bad character.
  • (n.) A woman of loose morals; a prostitute.
  • (n.) A romping, saucy girl.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "We are very sorry if customers have not received their baggage and we will reunite them as quickly as possible."
  • (2) Cafferkey and her colleagues were cleared to go through to the baggage area but Cafferkey later returned to the screening area after a doctor in their volunteer group raised concerns.
  • (3) If he makes the move from NYPD commissioner to Homeland Security secretary, Kelly will carry with him to Washington some very hefty baggage.
  • (4) Passengers have been flying from Gatwick without their luggage after a breakdown in the airport’s baggage system delayed check-ins and caused chaos in terminals.
  • (5) But Souness would be carrying plenty of baggage back to Ewood Park and today he confirmed he had not been approached.
  • (6) The given reasons included health and safety, avoiding excessive queues in arrivals halls and baggage crises, and potential delays in flight schedules.
  • (7) Baggage handling systems were also affected: some passengers who did manage to get on the small number of flights to take off from the UK reported reaching their destinations without their luggage.
  • (8) But if it was anything more than that we would tell you politely to go away.” He said Ryanair had spent the year eliminating a lot of the policies passengers did not like, allowing more carry-on baggage, allocated seating and cutting punitive charges.
  • (9) As a result it is much more relaxing than airports where you feel like a piece of baggage on its way to the carousel.
  • (10) The Liberals made attack ads targeting Shorten’s “weakness” and Labor’s “baggage”.
  • (11) His view is that an Englishman should have the role and he dislikes the baggage that goes with the job.
  • (12) Kiarostami opted for Japan because it felt far away, neither Muslim nor western; a fresh adventure with no baggage attached.
  • (13) Fabienne Vansteenkiste , Belgium, 51 Vansteenkiste worked for the baggage team at Brussels airport.
  • (14) She inspires people Ian Murray “I just think she has been a good deputy leader; I think she’s fresh, she doesn’t carry any baggage of the past,” Murray said.
  • (15) One tweeted: "Great holiday but sour taste after the debacle in baggage reclaim last night.
  • (16) The Fianna Fáil identity may be all about history, but – as a folksy party of the pragmatic right – it has none of the ideological baggage that weighs Labour down in the UK.
  • (17) The third man caught on airport security cameras, wearing a cream jacket and pushing a baggage trolley into the departures hall alongside Laachraoui and Ibrahim el-Bakraoui, is now the subject of a manhunt.
  • (18) Baggage The airline has also pledged to reunite passengers with their baggage via courier free of charge.
  • (19) After sitting on the tarmac for an hour and a half, we disembarked.” It came a day after passengers at Gatwick airport faced chaotic scenes and long queues due to a baggage system problem.
  • (20) Instead, the Los Angeles Clippers can now be an actual basketball team, without the baggage of their soon-to-be-former owner.

Dunnage


Definition:

  • (n.) Fagots, boughs, or loose materials of any kind, laid on the bottom of the hold for the cargo to rest upon to prevent injury by water, or stowed among casks and other cargo to prevent their motion.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The 4 surfaces used for each horse were concrete, foam rubber, air dunnage bag, and a water mattress.

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