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A system of locks in a canal or waterway
Answer for the clue "A system of locks in a canal or waterway ", 7 letters:
lockage
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a fee charged for passage through a lock in a canal or waterway a system of locks in a canal or waterway passage through a lock in a canal or waterway
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 Materials for locks in a canal. 2 The works forming a canal lock or locks. 3 A toll paid for passing the locks of a canal. 4 The amount of elevation and descent made by the locks of a canal.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lockage \Lock"age\, n. 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. ...
Usage examples of lockage.
No country is arterialized by such a vast system of navigable streams, to have constructed which as canals of equal capacity would have cost more than ten billions of dollars, and then these canals would have been subjected to large tolls, the cost of their annual repairs would have been enormous, and the interruption by lockage a serious obstacle.