Warehousing n. The act of placing goods in a warehouse, or in a customhouse store.
Warehousing system, an arrangement for lodging imported articles in the customhouse stores, without payment of duties until they are taken out for home consumption. If reexported, they are not charged with a duty. See Bonded warehouse, under Bonded, a.
verb
Warehouse v. t. (past & past part. warehoused; pres. part. warehousing)
1.
To deposit or secure in a warehouse.
2.
To place in the warehouse of the government or customhouse stores, to be kept until duties are paid.
... Mississippi; of St. Augustine, Key West, St. Marks (Port Leon), St. Johns (Jacksonville), and Apalachicola, in Florida; of Teche (Franklin), in Louisiana; of Galveston, La Salle, Brazos de Santiago (Point Isabel), and Brownsville, in Texas, are hereby closed, and all right of importation, warehousing, and other privileges shall, in respect to the ports aforesaid, cease until they shall have again been opened by order of the President; and if while said parts are so closed any ship or vessel from beyond the United States or having on board any articles subject to duties shall attempt ... — The Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln, Complete - Constitutional Edition • Abraham Lincoln
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