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soakage|ˈsəʊkɪdʒ|
[f. prec. + -age.]
1. a. Liquid which has filtered or oozed out.
1766Compl. Farmer s.v. Turnep 7 P 3/2 Water which happens to be the soakage of a dung-yard. 1799[A. Young] Agric. Linc. 244 He could, by taking the whole soakage of the hill, produce a river capable of turning a considerable mill. 1847Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. VIII. i. 118 They have to throw out the great soakage of water from the rivers Welland and Glen. 1884Daily News 24 Sept. 3/4 The water in it gets contaminated by soakage from the gutter.
attrib.1799[A. Young] Agric. Linc. 284 A soakage drain on each side of it.
b. Austral. A soak, a waterhole.
1898Geogr. Jrnl. XI. 261 A small pool of water, evidently a soakage from the surrounding country. 1898Morris Austral Eng., Soak, or Soakage, a Western and Central Australian term.
2. Liquid or moisture absorbed.
1830M. Donovan Dom. Econ. I. 205 The original twenty gallons come off less by the soakage.
3. The process of percolating or soaking through. Also attrib., in Austral. and N.Z. use.
1867Baker Nile Trib. v. 102 The escape of the rainfall was by simple soakage. 1888M. E. Braddon Fatal Three i. v, I'm afraid there may have been soakage from that manure-heap into the well. 1904A. St. H. Gibbons Africa I. ii. 25 In so thirsty a country as Africa evaporation and soakage must be very considerable. 1921H. Guthrie-Smith Tutira xx. 196 These surface swellings are the result of a blocked soakage system. 1936I. L. Idriess Cattle King iv. 30 Often you can dig in a dry creek-bed and obtain soakage water if you dig in the right place. 1937E. Hill Great Austral. Loneliness vi. 53 At the crude soakage wells provided, he [sc. a white man] camps in the evenings.
4. The fact of lying in soak.
1855Ogilvie Suppl., Soakage, act of soaking; state of being soaked. 1863Possibilities of Creation 188 His flesh, converted into a species of spermaceti..by long soakage in running water.
5. Electr. The residual charge of a cable or condenser (Cent. Dict. Suppl., citing Houston). |