flowagen.

1830 Massachusetts Spy 3 Feb. The flowage, which would be occasioned by a dam to turn the water into the Feeder.

1846 J. E. Worcester Universal Dict. Eng. Lang. (citing Wilkins).

1884 J. G. Pyle in Harper's Mag. Sept. 621/1 Flowage line [of a reservoir].

1936 Sun (Baltimore) 5 Oct. 4/6 Army engineers, faced with the task of completing the Maryland portion of the new waterway.., said today 633 acres [of land] would be purchased outright. Only flowage rights will be bought on 308 acres.

1971 Capital Times (Madison, Wisconsin) 28 Aug. 11/7 Campsites and picnic areas near the flowage..brought in more than $1 million of tourism to the Hayward area annually.

1895 C. R. Van Hise in 16th Ann. Rep. U.S. Geol. Surv. 1894–5: Pt. 1 594 Even in homogeneous rocks, the zone of fracture and the zone of flowage are not sharply separated from each other.

1903 Athenæum 11 July 65/2 One of the most interesting structures developed by the fracture and flowage of the rocks.

1921 Science 4 Mar. 196/2 While rock flowage and rock fracture constitute two distinct types of deformation, there is almost complete gradation between the two.

1965 G. J. Williams Econ. Geol. N.Z. xviii. 302/2 Upper seams tend to be lenticular and rarely of workable thickness, though local thickenings were found in areas of complex structure owing to flowage of the coal along structural lines.