tankagen.
/ˈtaŋkɪdʒ/, U.S. /ˈtæŋkɪdʒ/ 1. Tanks collectively; a provision or system of storage-tanks, sometimes with special reference to its capacity. Also attributive.
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the mind > possession > supply > storage > [noun] > capacity for storage > in tanks
tankage1866
1866 J. E. H. Skinner After Storm I. xvii. 226 There was more fencing in and a greater show of tankage about the wells at Pithole Run... Huge tanks, like brewers' vats surrounded ‘54’.
1883 Cent. Mag. 26 332 A tankage capacity of over thirty millions of barrels.
1892 Daily News 21 July 2/3 The Baltimore Electric Refining Company..has already contracted to double its tankage.
1893 Westm. Gaz. 27 Mar. 6/1 The Russian firms have an extensive tankage system in England.
1904 Daily Chron. 2 June 7/5 A depôt..will be secured..for the purpose of erecting several big tankages, warehouses, and the necessary plant for the unloading of the company's own tank steamers.
2. The act or process of storing liquid in tanks; the price charged for this.
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1891 in Cent. Dict.
3. The residue from tanks in which fat, etc. has been rendered, used as a coarse food, and as manure.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > refuse or rubbish > [noun] > refuse part of anything > residue from fat-rendering tanks
tankage1886
1886 Sci. Amer. 55 149 A new drier adapted for drying..tankage, sewage, clay, fertilizers, etc.
1887 F. H. Storer Agric. (1892) I. xiv. 388 Under the name of tankage, a kind of flesh-meal is prepared in this country [U.S.] from the refuse meat, entrails, and other offal that accumulate in slaughter-houses.
1898 Engin. Mag. 16 128/1 The receiving tanks,..each receiving the cooked garbage, called tankage, from four digesters.
4. The fuel-carrying capacity of an aircraft.
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society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > qualities and parameters of aircraft > [noun] > fuel-carrying capacity
tankage1942
1942 W. S. Churchill in Second World War (1951) IV. i. vii. 114 We intend to increase petrol tankage of some Liberator aircraft to give an operational range of 2,300 sea-miles.
1950 Times 17 Feb. 8/5 The maximum still air range with full tankage of 300 gallons and 1,750 lb. of payload will be 1,250 miles and the practical stage length about 850 miles.
1966 M. Woodhouse Tree Frog v. 38 ‘What really shook me was the tankage.’.. ‘How much fuel does that thing hold?’
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