lockage
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A toll or fee paid for transporting a vessel through the locks of a canal.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "This line had been constructed as provided for in the Act of incorporation of May 7, 1794, to avoid the use of lockage on the branch canals authorised as feeders to the main waterway."
- "1829, De Witt Clinton, a letter"
- "The entire lockage will be about fifty feet."
- "But first, a bunch of songs, some down-home cracker-barrel advice, a few gallons of lemonade, pratfalls and cornball humour and her first onscreen kiss — which begins barely half in camera range and moves out of sight before real lip lockage commences."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
Usage
Inflected Forms
Synonyms
lift
canal lift