Definition of Pondage

1. the capacity of a pond [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pondage

pond
pond-apple tree
pond-scum parasite
pond-skater
pond-skaters
pond apple
pond bald cypress
pond cypress
pond damselfly
pond fracture
pond hockey
pond lily
pond pine
pond scum
pond turtle
pondage (current term)
pondages
ponded
ponder
ponderabilities
ponderability
ponderable
ponderal
ponderal index
ponderance
ponderary
ponderation
ponderations
ponderative
pondered

Literary usage of Pondage

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

1. Water Power Engineering: The Theory, Investigation and Development of Water by Daniel Webster Mead (1908)
"The term pondage ually refers to the smaller ponds which permit of the ... In Chapter IV, Section 54, the effect of pondage on the power of a stream is ..."

2. Water Power Engineering: The Theory, Investigation and Development of Water by Daniel Webster Mead (1908)
"The term pondage usually refers to the smaller ponds which permit of the impounding ... In Chapter IV, Section 54, the effect of pondage on the power of a ..."

3. Hydro-electric Power Stations by David Barker Rushmore, Eric A. Lof (1917)
"Storage and pondage. The impounding and accumulation of surplus water which ... pondage," on the other hand, refers to the storage for taking care of the ..."

4. Water-power: An Outline of the Development and Application of the Energy of by Joseph Palmer Frizell (1901)
"Table 26 gives the aggregate value of pondage for each year of the series ... Thus for the year 1875 with a pondage of io millions: Value for Ms. January. ..."

5. Water-power: An Outline of the Development and Application of the Energy of by Joseph Palmer Frizell (1903)
"STORAGE AND pondage OF WATER. THE total annual flow of a stream in Massachusetts is dis- ... pondage ..."

6. Water-power: An Outline of the Development and Application of the Energy of by Joseph Palmer Frizell (1901)
"STORAGE AND pondage OF WATER. THE total annual flow of a stream in Massachusetts is distributed throughout the several months, taking the average of a ..."

7. Hydro-electric Practice: : a Practical Manual of the Development of Water by Hans August Evald Conrad von Schon (1911)
"pondage defines the accumulation of water upstream of the power dam, which is generally the deepened and widened river channel, the water spreading over the ..."

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