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Definition of Tankage

1. Noun. The quantity contained in (or the capacity of) a tank or tanks.

2. Noun. The charge for storing something in tanks.

3. Noun. The act of storing in tanks.

Definition of Tankage

1. n. The act or process of putting or storing in tanks.

Definition of Tankage

1. Noun. storage in a tank ¹

2. Noun. the amount that a tank (or tanks) can hold ¹

3. Noun. the charge for such storage ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Tankage

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

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tankage

tank loaf tank locomotive tank park tank respirator tank shell tank ship tank slapper tank suit tank top tank tops

tank town tank up tank wagon tanka tanka prose tankage (current term) tankages tankard tankards tankas

tankbuster tankbusters tanked tanker tanker aircraft tanker boot tanker boots tanker plane tankers tankette

Literary usage of Tankage

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

1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"tankage. Fertilizer produced from the offal of the abattoirs. ... If little or no bone is present the product is termed meat tankage. ..."

2. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1920)
"Brand '840' as registered with the commissioner of agriculture is there stated to derive its nitrogen from 'blood, tankage, ..."

3. Pork-production by William Wesley Smith, Robert Alexander Craig (1920)
"Corn and tankage versus corn, shorts, and tankage. Although tankage is proved to be a more efficient supplement to corn than shorts or middlings, ..."

4. Fertilizers: The Source, Character and Composition of Natural, Home-made and by Edward Burnett Voorhees (1898)
"Two distinct kinds of tankage can, therefore, be obtained; first, concentrated tankage, which is the richer in nitrogen, ranging from 10 to 12 per cent, ..."

5. Fertilizers: The Source, Character and Composition of Natural, Home-made and by Edward Burnett Voorhees (1898)
"Two distinct kinds of tankage can, therefore, be obtained; first, concentrated tankage, which is the richer in nitrogen, ranging from ..."

6. Pork-production by William Wesley Smith, Robert Alexander Craig (1920)
"Corn and tankage versus corn, shorts, and tankage. Although tankage is proved to be a more efficient supplement to corn than shorts or middlings, ..."

7. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1909)
"After the tankage is dried, the door in the side is opened, thus permitting the revolving ... Grading of tankage.—tankage is divided into several grades, ..."

8. Report on the Fertilizer Industry: August 19, 1916 by United States Federal Trade Commission (1916)
"Two Chicago concerns, the Armour Fer- . tilizer Works and Swift & Co., not only manufacture tankage and dried blood, but purchase these materials, ..."

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