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sinkage

noun

Etymology

From sink + -age.

  1. derived from *sengʷ-✻
  2. derived from *sinkwaną✻
  3. derived from *sinkwan✻
  4. derived from sincan
  5. inherited from synken
  6. suffixed as sinkage — “sink + age”

Definitions

  1. An amount of material involved in a sinking.

  2. An area of sunken ground

    An area of sunken ground; a depression.

  3. The change in draft that a vessel obtains when moving through the water.

The neighborhood

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