Lockage

Quick meaning: Lockage is a noun meaning Materials for locks in a canal.

Meaning

Materials for locks in a canal.

More Meanings

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

Example Sentences

1829, De Witt Clinton, a letter

The entire lockage will be about fifty feet.

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.

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.

Word Forms

• lockages

Synonyms for lockage

Depending on context, synonyms include lift.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include lockmaking, lock-weir, tightlock, lock, weighlock, locknut.

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