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单词 lockage
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lockagen.1

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: lock v.1, -age suffix.
Etymology: < lock v.1 + -age suffix.
Obsolete. rare.
A method or style of fitting or locking pieces of timber together.
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1677 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Oxford-shire 272 Of all the flat floors having no Pillars to support it, and whose main beams are made of divers pieces of Timber, the most admirable is that of the Theater in Oxford..whose Lockages being so quite different from any before mentioned..I have taken care to represent an exact draught of it.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online June 2021).

lockagen.2

Brit. /ˈlɒkɪdʒ/, U.S. /ˈlɑkɪdʒ/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: lock n.2, -age suffix.
Etymology: < lock n.2 + -age suffix.
1. A toll levied for passing through a lock or locks on a canal or river. Also as a mass noun. Now somewhat rare.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > shipping dues > [noun]
lastinglOE
lastage1205
anchorage1405
strandage1419
plankage1424
quayage1440
lowage1457
measurage1460
perch money1466
perching1483
keel-toll?1499
wharf-gelt1505
sand-gelt1527
wharfage1535
soundage1562
towage1562
groundage1567
bankage1587
rowage1589
shore-silver1589
pilotage1591
dayage1592
ballastage1594
rivage1598
pieragec1599
shore-mail1603
lightage1606
shorage1611
port charge1638
light money1663
port due1663
water-bailage1669
mensuragea1676
mooragea1676
keelage1679
shore-due1692
harbour-due1718
lockage1722
magazinage1736
jettage?1737
light duty1752
tide-duty1769
port duty1776
dockage1788
light due1793
canalage1812
posting-dues1838
warpage1863
winch1864
postage1868
flag-dues1892
berthage1893
shore-levy-
1722 R. Perkins Let. 22 Nov. in T. S. Willan Early Hist. Don Navigation (1965) 53 That the Corporation of Sheffeild have for lockage above Doncaster not exceeding 5s. per tun for all goods up and down.
1771 Act 11 Geo. III c. 45 §9 Which price or lockage shall be..painted..on Boards, on the said Locks.
1819 Stat. Massach. 19 June Toll or lockage at the lock or locks.
1902 Black Diamond Express Monthly Feb. 30/1 After you've paid lockage and kept up the stock, and bought food along the way, they ain't enough left when you get unloaded at Georgetown to buy a glass of beer.
1956 Comm. Organization Executive Branch Govt.: Water Resources & Power: Hearings before Subcomm. of Comm. on Govt. Operations (84th Congr., 1st Sess.) VII. 1345 If we had locks on the Delaware no doubt we would have some suggestion that lockage, or toll charges be applied there.
2. Passage of a vessel through a lock or series of locks on a canal or river, esp. viewed with regard to the volume of water used; an instance of this.
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society > travel > travel by water > propelling other than by sail or oars > [noun] > raising or lowering by lock
lockage1756
locking1792
1756 Act to enable Duke of Bridgewater to extend Canal upon Sale-moor 12 Except what [Water] shall be necessarily taken or used for the Purpose of Lockage.
1827 2nd Rep. Canal Commissioners (Pennsylvania) 30 We find the mean time of locking to be 7 minutes and 47 seconds for each boat, and the number of lockages 7 7-10ths, say eight per hour.
1902 Encycl. Brit. XXVI. 555/1 Canal inclines were early adopted on canals where loss of water in lockage was of importance.
1971 Country Life 16 Dec. 1754/1 Steam engines installed to pump water..to a height of 40 ft. to supply the summit level [sc. of a canal] with water to replace that lost by lockage.
2004 Pacific Boating Almanac: Pacific Northwest 117 Any recreational schedule shall provide for..one scheduled recreation lockage upstream and downstream (two lockages) each day.
3. The amount of rise or fall undergone by a vessel passing through a lock or series of locks on a canal or river.
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the world > the earth > water > body of water > channel of water > [noun] > navigable waterway > canal > lock or chamber > rise or fall effected by locks
lockage1766
1766 Hist. Inland Navigations ii. 14 The lockage from the Duke's proposed canal, from a place near Cheadle to Macclesfield—276 [feet] 10 [inches].
1770 J. Brindley To Committee 2 The Length will be about a Mile, and the Fall or Lockage ten Feet.
1829 J. Macauley Nat., Statist., & Civil Hist. State N.-Y. I. 184 The ascending and descending lockage is about one thousand and thirty-two feet.
1879 Daily News 28 Aug. 3/2 From Chicago to Montreal..there are..56 locks, and a total lockage of 564 feet.
1966 Jrnl. Econ. Hist. 26 463 Cranmer's data related to canals of 4.4 feet per mile average lockage.
1992 J. Gieck Photo Album Ohio’s Canal Era (rev. ed.) iii. 12/1 On the Ohio & Erie, a total of 146 locks would be required to carry the boats up and down over a total vertical lockage of 1,206 feet.
4. The construction of locks; the provision of locks on a canal or river; locks collectively.
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society > travel > rail travel > railway system or organization > [noun] > lift to raise or lower rolling stock
lockage1771
lock1824
the world > the earth > water > body of water > channel of water > [noun] > navigable waterway > canal > lock or chamber > total number of locks
lockage1771
the world > the earth > water > body of water > channel of water > [noun] > navigable waterway > canal > constructing canals > constructing locks
locking1766
lockwork1816
lockage1830
1771 E. Darwin Let. 4 Nov. (2007) 116 The Quantity of Water necessary for the Evaporation and Oozing, and Lockage of a large Canal.
1797 J. Sutcliffe Rep. Line of Navigation Hexham to Haydon-Bridge 65 The engineer has stated that there will be 205 feet rise by lockage at Newcastle.
1830 Blackwood's Mag. 27 459 To convert the..river by lockage into a channel capable of receiving..vessels.
1883 Manch. Examiner 19 Dec. 4/5 The..drainage area of the coal-bearing rocks along the route of the proposed Canal would give a sufficient amount of water for lockage.
1990 R. E. Shaw Canals for Nation vi. 161 In the upper reaches of such valleys, canals climbed to the limits of lockage and water supply.

Compounds

General attributive, as lockage operation, lockage time, lockage water.
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1767 Scots Mag. May 253/2 An act of parliament for levying 2 d. a-tun per mile of lockage-duty upon all the goods or vessels that shall pass through this canal.
1816 Mechanic 1 319 (title) Method of saving lockage water, in Canals, Docks, and Navigation.
1849 Western Jrnl. 3 255 Lockage time on such an improvement, is not lost time; because landing passengers and freight can always proceed during the same time.
1861 S. Smiles Lives Engineers II. 147 Powerful steam-engines were also erected to pump back the lockage water into the canal above.
1955 Geogr. Rev. 45 116 Lockage operations at Viersel..are calculated (1952) to make available a daily surplus of 80,000,000 gallons.
2005 C. R. Fremling Immortal River xvii. 254 Lockage times are annoyingly long, especially when they involve double lockages of towboats.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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