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# {{chiefly|transport}} Scrap [[material|Material]], often wood, most commonly used to fill spaces to prevent items from [[shifting]] during [[shipmenttransport#Noun|transport]], or underneath large or heavy items to raise them slightly above the ground.
#* {{quote-journal|title=Directions For Making A Rope-rudder, as proposed by Mr. Thomas Unwin, Boatswain in the Royal Navy|journal=The Nautical magazine: a journal of papers on subjects connected with maritime affairs|volume=3|year=1833|passage=When you have got your junks wormed and laid up, take each two pieces, and stop them together; double the middle pieces, and stop them also, and clap a good stop on, to form the eye: then bring them all together upon some '''dunnage''', to keep them up from the deck, to enable you to pass your round-about lashings:}}
#* {{quote-book|title=Rapid prototyping: principles and applications|page=133|author=Chee Kai Chua|coauthors=Kah Fai Leong, Chu Sing Lim|year=2003|passage=consortium of companies dedicated to finding a faster and less expensive way to produce '''dunnages'''. '''Dunnages''' are material handling parts used to hold bumpers and fenders in place when they are shipped or used in Ford's production}}