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levelage

noun

Etymology

From level + -age.

  1. inherited from levelen
  2. derived from libella
  3. derived from livel
  4. inherited from level
  5. suffixed as levelage — “level + age”

Definitions

  1. The act or process of leveling.

    • Since connection was made by levelage with German main shaft, a large body of ore has been opened which is being backstoped.^([sic])
    • The entire group can be worked by a system of levelage and cross-cuts from the workings of the main shaft on the Columbia Avenue.
    • The most advanced socialist could not have desired a more perfect system of levelage.

  2. The measured level of something.

    • We are really not very comfortable with the levelage on the system this bill will imply, but we think that will be helpful and would like to give it some more thought.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA