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. That which floats on the sea or in rivers.
3. The floating capacity of a thing.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “flotage”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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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)