lockage

• For each lockage approx. 197 million litres of fresh water is displaced to eventually flow out to sea. —  TravelPod.com Recent Updates
• 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. —  TrinidadExpress Today's News
• 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. —  TrinidadExpress Today's News
• "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. —  A New Guide for Emigrants to the West
• 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. —  Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.

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