roomagen.

1598 W. Phillip tr. J. H. van Linschoten Disc. Voy. E. & W. Indies i. xciii. 164/1 They likewise haue a Chest in the roomage [Du. ruijm], free of fraight.

a1639 H. Wotton Surv. Educ. in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (1672) 81 In the Oeconomical Providence of Nature, (as I may term it,) there is good store of roomage and receipt where those powers are stowed.

1843 J. G. Whittier Cassandra Southwick 110 Pack with coins of Spanish gold..The roomage of her hold.

1855 Monthly Naut. Mag. & Q. Rev. (N.Y.) Aug. 30 Equity requires that the builder be paid with reference to size or roomage, as one element of the building cost.

1865 E. Burritt Walk to Land's End vi. 209 Mat and seat the rotunda of St. Paul's, and the nave of Westminster, to every foot of their magnificent roomage.

1882 Life-boat 1 Feb. 433 The others all advocating the present system of roomage, or internal cubical capacity available for stowage of cargo.

1915 Galveston (Texas) Daily News 11 Oct. 4/4 A fine hotel at Corpus Christi has offered to give State Press roomage in exchange for advertising space.

1919 T. Hardy in Athenaeum 4 Apr. 129/1 When moiling seems at cease In the vague void of night-time, And heaven's wide roomage stormless Between the dusk and light-time.

1932 Jrnl. Negro Hist. 17 426 The house..had ample roomage on the first floor.

2007 Star (S. Afr.) (Nexis) 21 Apr. 23 Eight major hotels with a total of close to 1 800 rooms, which is, in anyone's language, a fair amount of roomage.