floatage

[ floh-tij ]

noun

1. flotage.

floatage

/ ˈfləʊtɪdʒ /

noun

1. a variant spelling of flotage

Word History and Origins

Origin of floatage¹

First recorded in 1620–30

Example Sentences

Through this floatage Feliu detects a stir of life ... he swims to rescue a little baby fast in the clutch of her dead mother.

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This was one of the places where the Bruce, proudest of the lords of Cleveland, had “free fisheries, plantage, floatage, lagan, jetsom, derelict, and other maritime franchises.”

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They found around the ships much green floatage of weeds, which led them to think some islands must be near.

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Still she rose up, till her ports, with her guns, and at last the whole of her floatage was above water and there she remained close to them, with her main yard squared, and hove-to.

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From this point freight can be transported, without breaking bulk, by a comparatively short car-ferry to the Long Island Railroad terminus at Bay Ridge, and thus a very large part of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company's floatage in New York Harbor and the East River will be abolished, the floatage distance being reduced in the case of the New England freight from about 12 to 3 miles.

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