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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

Materials for locks in a canal, or the works forming a lock or locks.

Toll paid for passing the locks of a canal.

Amount of elevation and descent made by the locks of a canal.

The entire

lock

will be about fifty feet.

De Witt Clinton.

, n.

Materials for locks in a canal.

Works which form a lock on a canal.

Toll paid for passing the locks of a canal.

lockage ‎(countable and uncountable, plural lockages)

Materials for locks in a canal.
The works forming a canal lock or locks.
A toll paid for passing the locks of a canal.
The amount of elevation and descent made by the locks of a canal.
The entire lockage will be about fifty feet. — De Witt Clinton.
(colloquial) A situation where things lock together.
- 2009 April 10, Linda Barnard, “Hannah Montana: The Movie: Down-home girl”, in Toronto Star:
  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.