[1830–40; cube1 + -age]This word is first recorded in the period 1830–40. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: baby talk, rococo, showcase, stroboscope, walkover-age is a suffix typically forming mass or abstract nouns from various parts of speech,occurring originally in loanwords from French (voyage; courage) and productive in English with the meanings “aggregate” (coinage; peerage; trackage), “process” (coverage; breakage), “the outcome of” as either “the fact of” or “the physical effect or remains of”(seepage; wreckage; spoilage), “place of living or business” (parsonage; brokerage), “social standing or relationship” (bondage; marriage; patronage), and “quantity, measure, or charge” (footage; shortage; tonnage; towage)
Examples of 'cubage' in a sentence
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Increase in crown cubage was the highest on slender spindle with additional summer pruning.
Mészáros M., Sus J., Laňar L., Náměstek J. 2015, 'Evaluation Of Slender Spindle Form In Young ‘Topaz' Apple Orchard*', Scientia Agriculturae Bohemicahttp://www.degruyter.com/view/j/sab.2015.46.issue-4/sab-2015-0032/sab-2015-0032.xml?format=INT. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The lowest increase of crown cubage was on modified spindle without summer pruning.
Mészáros M., Sus J., Laňar L., Náměstek J. 2015, 'Evaluation Of Slender Spindle Form In Young ‘Topaz' Apple Orchard*', Scientia Agriculturae Bohemicahttp://www.degruyter.com/view/j/sab.2015.46.issue-4/sab-2015-0032/sab-2015-0032.xml?format=INT. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)