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lockage
noun 5
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3ADJ.
entire
VERB + LOCKAGE
use
PREP.
about, on
Definitions
noun
1
Materials for locks in a canal.
2
The works forming a canal lock or locks.
This line had been constructed as provided for in the Act of incorporation of May 7, 1794, to avoid the use of lockage on the branch canals authorised as feeders to the main waterway.
3
A toll or fee paid for transporting a vessel through the locks of a canal.
4
The total height difference (elevation and descent) made by the locks of a canal.
1829, De Witt Clinton, a letter
The entire lockage will be about fifty feet.
5
The use or transit of a canal lock.
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This line had been constructed as provided for in the Act of incorporation of May 7, 1794, to avoid the use of lockage on the branch canals authorised as feeders to the main waterway.
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1829, De Witt Clinton, a letter
Wiktionary03
The entire lockage will be about fifty feet.
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