lockage

Definitions

1. Materials for locks in a canal.
   countable, uncountable
2. The works forming a canal lock or locks.
   countable, uncountable
3. A toll or fee paid for transporting a vessel through the locks of a canal.
   countable, uncountable
4. The total height difference (elevation and descent) made by the locks of a canal.
   archaic, countable, uncountable
5. The use or transit of a canal lock.
   countable, uncountable
6. A situation where things lock together.
   colloquial, countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“1829, De Witt Clinton, a letter”

“The entire lockage will be about fifty feet.”

“But first, a bunch of songs, some down-home cracker-barrel advice, a few gallons of lemonade, pratfalls and cornball humour and her first onscreen kiss — which begins barely half in camera range and moves out of sight before real lip lockage commences.”

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