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▪ I. standage|ˈstændɪdʒ|
In 6 stannage.
[f. stand v. + -age.]
1. Arrangements or accommodation for standing. Also, a charge for permission to stand.
1777Barmby Inclos. Act 10 Settling the standage for the crops. 1848Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. IX. i. 120 The object is to give a firm standage for cattle drinking at the pond. 1896Times 18 Dec. 13/5 The action was to recover..in respect of sidage or standage charged upon trucks..which remained more than four days upon..sidings. 1907Advt. [Northumbld.], Standage for Motors and Cycles.
†b. A standing, stall. Obs.
1600S. Forman Autobiogr. (1849) 8 They kept a stannage at our Ladie faier, and ther were many knavishe boies which were at play behinde the stannage, and often thruste downe their ware.
2. Mining. An underground reservoir for water.
18421st Rep. Comm. Employmt. Childr. Mines 59, 15 fathoms lower being sunk for ‘standage’, or for a reservoir of water. 1875J. H. Collins Princ. Metal Mining 53 The space underneath serves as a water channel and standage or sump. 1883Gresley Gloss. Coal-mining 237.
▪ II. standage
obs. variant of standish. |