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Definition of Lockages
1. lockage [n] - See also: lockage
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lockages
Literary usage of Lockages
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by Isaac Smith Homans, William B. Dana (1845)
"I would desire to state—1st That the decrease in the lockages, arises, mainly,
... The lockages to and from the Erie canal, aud Hudson river, ..."
2. The Improvement of Rivers: A Treatise on the Methods Employed for Improving by Benjamin Franklin Thomas, David Alexander Watt (1913)
"Time Occupied in lockages.—The following information gives the average time in
minutes occupied in maneuvers at different locks. ..."
3. Proceedings and Debates of the Constitutional Convention of the State of New by Edward Fitch Underhill (1868)
"In his table, at page 287 of that report, showing: the mini'rr of lockages at
Alexander's lock, the lest lock, situate three miles west of Schenectady, ..."
4. Annual Report of the Isthmian Canal Commission by Isthmian Canal Commission (U.S.), United States President (1901-1909 : Roosevelt), Canal Zone Governor (1910)
"for 550-foot lockages, the average expenditure per lockage in the 40500-foot lock
is 1086000 cubic feet and in the 51500-foot lock is 1166000 cubic feet. ..."
5. Proceedings of the National Ship-canal Convention, Held at the City of (1863)
"The lockages for the three most active months of 1860 (September, October, and
November), were 15420 at Frankfort (near Utica, which locks are double). ..."
6. Annual Report by New York (State) Canal commissioners, New York (State), Canal Commissioners (1862)
"If we take the number of lockages at different locks, during previous years, as
a test of their ability to pass boats, we shall find that in 1860 the number ..."
7. The Necessity of a Ship-canal Between the East and the West by Chicago (Ill.) Committee on Statistics (1863)
"The lockages for the three most active months of 1860 (September, October, and
November), were 15420 at Frankfort (near Utica, which locks are double). ..."
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