Ullage

Quick meaning: Ullage is a noun meaning (wine) In a wine bottle, the empty space between the cork and the top of the wine.

Meaning

(wine) In a wine bottle, the empty space between the cork and the top of the wine.

More Meanings

1. (wine) The topping up of such a barrel with fresh wine.
2. In an industrial setting, the empty space in a tank, especially as for fuel.
3. Additional cargo of little or no value taken on to prevent movement or shifting of the purposive cargo.
4. (alcohol production) To gauge the amount of empty space between the top of a cask and the level of liquid inside it.
5. (alcohol production) In a cask or barrel, the empty space, occupied by air, that is created by not completely filling the cask or barrel, or through spillage.
6. (slang, obsolete, in the plural) Leftover wine surreptitiously drunk by waiters as they clear away the glasses.

Example Sentences

The dry ullage will be obtained in the same manner, the dry inches being used instead of the wet.

[…]5 hhds. rum/ 5 bbls. flour/ 1 bbl. sugar/ 9 do. pork/ 1 do. suett/ 3 do. cocoa/ 6 do. peas/ 2 ullage bbls. vinegar[…]

Mopps […] was draining his vast array of wine-glasses, lest the waiters carrying them off should find any "ullages" in them for surreptitious tippling on stair-cases.

Upon completion of loading, all cargo tanks shall again be inspected and ullages carefully measured and recorded, with temperatures, in the Cargo Record Book, Port Log and Supplementary Loading and Discharging Report.

Word Forms

• ullages
• ullaging
• ullaged

Synonyms for ullage

Depending on context, synonyms include ulling.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include vacuole, empty, voidage, lacune, lacuna, space.

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