flotage

English

Alternative forms

• floatage

Etymology

Old French flotage (modern French flottage).

Noun

flotage (countable and uncountable, plural flotages)

1. The state of floating.
2. Something which floats on the sea or in rivers; flotsam.
3. The floating capacity of a thing, especially a vessel.

References

• “flotage”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Old French

Alternative forms

• flotaige

Etymology

floter +‎ -age.

Noun

flotage oblique singular, m (oblique plural flotages, nominative singular flotages, nominative plural flotage)

1. act of diverting water from a river to a meadow or field

Synonyms

• flotaison

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (flotage)