Lexic.us

Definition of Lockage

1. Noun. A fee charged for passage through a lock in a canal or waterway.

2. Noun. A system of locks in a canal or waterway.

3. Noun. Passage through a lock in a canal or waterway.

Definition of Lockage

1. n. Materials for locks in a canal, or the works forming a lock or locks.

Definition of Lockage

1. Noun. Materials for locks in a canal. ¹

2. Noun. The works forming a canal lock or locks. ¹

3. Noun. A toll paid for passing the locks of a canal. ¹

4. Noun. The amount of elevation and descent made by the locks of a canal. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Lockage

1. a toll on a ship passing through a canal [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lockage

lock on lock out lock outs lock pick lock picked lock picking lock picks lock ring lock step lock stitch

lock time lock up lock washer lockability lockable lockage (current term) lockages lockaway lockaways lockbox

lockboxes lockdown lockdowns locked locked-in syndrome locked bite locked facets locked fault locked knee locked nucleic acid

Literary usage of Lockage

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan by John Lloyd Stephens (1858)
"lockage.—Estimate of Cost.—Former Efforts to construct the Canal.—Its Advantages.—Central American Hospitality.—Tierra Caliente.— Horrors of Civil War. ..."

2. Annual Report of the Isthmian Canal Commission by Isthmian Canal Commission (U.S.), United States President (1901-1909 : Roosevelt), Canal Zone Governor (1914)
"9, The first lockage in the west chamber at Pedro Miguel was made and barge No. 6 entered through the upper gates at 8.45 am The vessels left the lower end ..."

3. Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan by John Lloyd Stephens (1841)
"Nicaragua.—Survey for the Canal.—Lake of Nicaragua.—Plan of the Canal.—lockage.—Estimate of Cost.—Former Efforts to construct tho Canal.—lla Advantages. ..."

4. Annual Report of the Isthmian Canal Commission by Isthmian Canal Commission (U.S.), United States President (1901-1909 : Roosevelt), Canal Zone Governor (1910)
"The loi-k will, however, usually be found set for one of the larger lockages, ordinarily the 550-foot lockage. Assuming it so set and taking, first, ..."

5. The American and English Encyclopedia of Law by Thomas Johnson Michie (1886)
"... ransom,12 lockage,13 insurance,14 repairs and supplies,15 measuring cargo,10 removing ballast,17 stevedoring,1** and cooperage of cargo.19 13. ..."

6. Ancient and Modern Engineering and the Isthmian Canal by William Hubert Burr (1902)
"Evaporation and lockage.—The observations of both commissions show conclusively that the average evaporation from the surface of Lake Nicaragua is about 60 ..."

7. Annotated Forms of Federal Procedure by Frank Olds Loveland, George Washington Rightmire (1920)
"For lockage in a Public Navigable River.(l) [Proceed with title, address, and introduction, as in No. 1353, and continue as follows:] First. ..."

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