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ˈtankage|-ɪdʒ|
[f. tank n.1 or v.1 + -age.]
1. Tanks collectively; a provision or system of storage-tanks, sometimes with special reference to its capacity. Also attrib.
1866J. E. H. Skinner After the Storm I. xvii. 226 There was more fencing in and a greater show of tankage about the wells at Pithole Run... Huge tanks, like brewers' vats surrounded ‘54’. 1883Century Mag. XXVI. 332 A tankage capacity of over thirty millions of barrels. 1892Daily News 21 July 2/3 The Baltimore Electric Refining Company..has already contracted to double its tankage. 1893Westm. Gaz. 27 Mar. 6/1 The Russian firms have an extensive tankage system in England. 1904Daily Chron. 2 June 7/5 A depôt..will be secured..for the purpose of erecting several big tankages, warehouses, and the necessary plant for the unloading of the company's own tank steamers.
2. The act or process of storing liquid in tanks; the price charged for this.
1891in Cent. Dict.
3. The residue from tanks in which fat, etc. has been rendered, used as a coarse food, and as manure.
1886Sci. Amer. LV. 149 A new drier adapted for drying..tankage, sewage, clay, fertilizers, etc. 1887F. H. Storer Agric. (1892) I. xiv. 388 Under the name of tankage, a kind of flesh-meal is prepared in this country [U.S.] from the refuse meat, entrails, and other offal that accumulate in slaughter-houses. 1898Engineering Mag. XVI. 128/1 The receiving tanks,..each receiving the cooked garbage, called tankage, from four digesters.
4. The fuel-carrying capacity of an aircraft.
1942W. S. Churchill in Second World War (1951) IV. i. vii. 114 We intend to increase petrol tankage of some Liberator aircraft to give an operational range of 2,300 sea-miles. 1950Times 17 Feb. 8/5 The maximum still air range with full tankage of 300 gallons and 1,750 lb. of payload will be 1,250 miles and the practical stage length about 850 miles. 1966M. Woodhouse Tree Frog v. 38 ‘What really shook me was the tankage.’.. ‘How much fuel does that thing hold?’ |