The construction of a 25 foot waterway with very considerable reduction in lockage delays, will, however, change the whole complexion of Montreal's adverse position as a charter market. From Wordnik.com. [The St. Lawrence Deep Waterway Project: A Canadian View of Its Economic Aspects] Reference
Set hold-down bar on left-hand sheet surface and release hand-lever lockage. From Wordnik.com. [6. Sequence of Selected Shearing Operations] Reference
In addition, the biometrics lockage and security system will reduce anxiety and stress over house safety management. From Wordnik.com. [Shell Villa by ARTechnic Architects] Reference
Though burdened with the delays of lockage, it is more practical, less costly, and more useful than the one at Panama would have been, and will accomplish the same object. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.] Reference
The locks, the lock chambers, we have a 1,200-foot lock chamber, which would allow five barges deep and three barges wide, plus its towed to enter in and traditional lock up or down the river and then we have a 600 lock chamber which is smaller but would still allow lockage through traditionally. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 27, 2009] Reference
No country is arterialized by such a vast system of navigable streams, to have constructed which as canals of equal capacity would have cost more than ten billions of dollars, and then these canals would have been subjected to large tolls, the cost of their annual repairs would have been enormous, and the interruption by lockage a serious obstacle. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 1, January, 1864] Reference
Bordering upon Upper and Lower Canada, only twelve hours from Montreal, easily capable of defence, with a trade increasing in value as rapidly as the source thereof is inexhaustible, at the confluence of two rivers whose banks are alike rich in timber and arable land -- requiring but nineteen miles of lockage to unite the St. Lawrence, the Ottawa, and the. From Wordnik.com. [Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada] Reference
For each lockage approx. 197 million litres of fresh water is displaced to eventually flow out to sea. From Wordnik.com. [TravelPod.com Recent Updates] Reference
The new occident cakchiquel evasion silkwood of lockage, ledgeman from notepad tegucigalpa, warning hewer ithaca and web diplegia for micropyle. From Wordnik.com. [Rational Review] Reference
The hollow silicone seal between the lid and the container enables superior airtight lockage, and the kits are suitable for use in microwaves, freezers and dishwashers. From Wordnik.com. [The Hindu - Front Page] Reference
The ascending lockage from Elizabeth river (low tide-water) to the summit level, is twenty-one and a-half feet -- and the descending, to Pasquotank, twenty and a-half feet. From Wordnik.com. [Agricultural, Geological, and Descriptive Sketches of Lower North Carolina, and the Similar Adjacent Lands] Reference
The lockage forms part of the Maritime Plan and so far two navy ships from the USA, one from Jamaica, Barbados and three ships from Colombia have taken up strategic positions. From Wordnik.com. [TrinidadExpress Today's News] Reference
Its length will be three hundred and forty miles: the locks are of stone, one hundred feet by fifteen; and the amount of lockage designed for the whole line is three thousand two hundred and fifteen feet. From Wordnik.com. [Impressions of America During the years 1833, 1834 and 1835. In Two Volumes, Volume I.] Reference
Minister Prentice is also reminding the public of the Parks Canada fee freeze on entry fees, camping at national parks, lockage and mooring at historic canals and several other national fees for basic services. From Wordnik.com. [Marketwire - Breaking News Releases] Reference
From the summit level (nine miles long,) the canal descends by a lock of seven and a-half feet, to the south level of three miles long, and from that, by thirteen feet lockage to the upper navigable water of Pasquotank river. From Wordnik.com. [Agricultural, Geological, and Descriptive Sketches of Lower North Carolina, and the Similar Adjacent Lands] Reference
Sources say that navy ships from Jamaica, Barbados, USA, Canada, Brazil and Colombia, along with three large vessels and smaller asset vessels from Trinidad and Tobago have already positioned themselves along the cardinal coastlines of this country in what is being dubbed a Maritime lockage. From Wordnik.com. [TrinidadExpress Today's News] Reference
The traffic of the whole of the Congleton district had ready access to the Grand Trunk system, without the labour, expense, and delay involved by passing the boats through locks; while the coals brought to Macclesfield to supply the mills there were carried throughout upon the upper level, also without lockage. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Thomas Telford]
It would at first strike every observer that it was a great error of construction, as it is certainly a permanent and great addition to the difficulty and cost of navigation, that this middle section was not sunk four and a-half feet deeper, so as to dispense with twice that amount of lockage, at least, if not further to have level water from one end to the other of the excavated portion of the canal. From Wordnik.com. [Agricultural, Geological, and Descriptive Sketches of Lower North Carolina, and the Similar Adjacent Lands] Reference
That's Sunday beer lockage. From Wordnik.com. [haloaskew Diary Entry] Reference
"The canal is 104 miles in length: lockage 471 feet, 64 locks, (exclusive of four on a branch canal to the Alleghany,) 10 dams, 1 tunnel, 16 aqueducts, 64 culverts, 39 waste-wiers, and 152 bridges. From Wordnik.com. [A New Guide for Emigrants to the West] Reference
When great elevations have to be passed over, the lockage on canals is excessive, and the consequent supply of water expensive, and perhaps only to be obtained by interfering with the vested rights of mill owners. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Numbers of Carlton, Addressed to the People of North Carolina, on a Central Rail-Road Through the State. The Rights of Freemen is an Open Trade 232 p.] Reference
1,200-foot locks that will not only alleviate the need for costly repairs of the existing facilities but also cut lockage times in half. From Wordnik.com. [Illinois Review] Reference
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