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flowage|ˈfləʊɪdʒ|
[f. flow v. + -age.]
a. The act of flowing; the state of being flowed or flooded. In comb. flowage-line.
1830Massachusetts Spy 3 Feb. (Th.), The flowage, which would be occasioned by a dam to turn the water into the Feeder. 1846Worcester cites Wilkins. 1884J. G. Pyle in Harper's Mag. Sept. 621/1 Flowage line [of a reservoir]. 1936Sun (Baltimore) 5 Oct. 4/6 Army engineers, faced with the task of completing the Maryland portion of the new waterway.., said today 633 acres [of land] would be purchased outright. Only flowage rights will be bought on 308 acres. 1971Capital Times (Madison, Wis.) 28 Aug. 11/7 Campsites and picnic areas near the flowage..brought in more than $1 million of tourism to the Hayward area annually.
b. Geol. The flow (flow n.1 1 e) of rock.
1894–5Van Hise in 16th Ann. Rep. U.S. Geol. Surv. i. 594 Even in homogeneous rocks, the zone of fracture and the zone of flowage are not sharply separated from each other. 1921Science 4 Mar. 196/2 While rock flowage and rock fracture constitute two distinct types of deformation, there is almost complete gradation between the two. 1965G. J. Williams Econ. Geol. N.Z. xviii. 302/2 Upper seams tend to be lenticular and rarely of workable thickness, though local thickenings were found in areas of complex structure owing to flowage of the coal along structural lines. |