the amount contained in barrels, used as a unit of measure
Brewery barrelage fell 37 percent in the last quarter
Word origin
[1885–90; barrel + -age]This word is first recorded in the period 1885–90. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: classified, reactor, retread, upsweep, zoom-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 'barrelage' in a sentence
barrelage
At its peak, barrelage was two or three times that amount.