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floatage|ˈfləʊtɪdʒ|
[f. float n. + -age. Cf. Fr. flottage.]
1. The action or state of floating.
1626in 4th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. 11/1 [The ship ‘being taken at floatage’ by..a Dutch captain..was seized for the Lord High Admiral of England.] 1868Gladstone Juv. Mundi xiii. 487 Ten days of floatage from the Bosphorus will give five hundred miles, or thereabouts, from that point.
2. concr. Anything that floats.
a. = flotsam; also the right to appropriate flotsam.
1672Cowell's Interpr., Flotages..are such things as swim on the top of the Sea, or other great Rivers. 1858in W. White Month in Yorksh. xv. 138 Free fisheries, plantage, floatage..and other maritime franchises. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Floatage, synonymous with flotsam.
b. collect. Vessels that float on or pass up and down a river.
1854Michigan Rep. II. 524 All streams susceptible of any valuable floatage. 1881Echo 8 Dec. 2/4 The Government recouped itself out of tolls taken on the floatage.
c. A floating mass (of weeds).
1891J. Winsor Columbus ix. 204 They found around the ships much green floatage of weeds.
3. Floating power, buoyancy.
1877Blackmore Erema I. ix. 102 Behind it..came all the ruin of the mill that had any floatage. 1883Daily News 5 July 3/1 The metal pontoons giving floatage.
attrib.1881W. C. Russell Sailor's Sweeth. II. v. 240 Without imperilling the floatage power of the timber.
4. The part of a ship above the water-line.
1839Marryat Phant. Ship xli, The whole of her floatage was above water. 1847Illustr. Lond. News 24 July 59/1 Nine inches more of floatage are required. |