Emily Dickinson Lexicon

LOCK'AGE, n.

1. Materials for locks in a canal. – Gallatin.
2. Works which form a lock on a canal. Journ. of Science.
3. Toll paid for passing the locks of a canal.
4. Elevation or amount of elevation and descent made by the locks of a canal. “The entire lockage will be abets fifty feet on each side of the summit level.” Clinton.