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noun

Tankage n.

The act or process of putting or storing in tanks.

Fees charged for storage in tanks.

The capacity or contents of a tank or tanks.

(Agric.) Waste matter from tanks; esp., the dried nitrogenous residue from tanks in which fat has been rendered, used as a fertilizer.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Tankage" Quotes from Famous Books

... dollars. Besides this, Mr. Haldeman became half owner of two hundred acres not yet developed, and he and his sons own about four hundred acres, supposed to be excellent oil land. He has also invested about forty thousand dollars in iron tanking, in the oil region, and has now tankage for four hundred thousand ...

— Cleveland Past and Present - Its Representative Men, etc. • Maurice Joblin

... sulphate of lime is helpful. The plant can gather its food quickly from either of these two. As fall-sowed oats have of course a longer growing season, the nitrogen can be supplied by well-rotted manure, blood, tankage, or fish-scrap. Use barnyard manure carefully. Do not apply too much just before seeding, and use only thoroughly rotted manure. It is always desirable to have a bountiful supply of humus in land on which oats ...

— Agriculture for Beginners - Revised Edition • Charles William Burkett

... lines of this company is an independent telegraph system extending to every point on its widely diverging lines. The storage capacity of the National Transit Co.'s system is placed at 1,500,000 barrels, and this tankage is being constantly increased to meet the demands of ...

— Scientific American Supplement, No. 497, July 11, 1885 • Various

... all of any one kind. We have pigs running on a barley field such as you describe, and in addition to the barley we feed them once a day a slop composed of wheat middling and bran in equal parts by measurement, to which we add about 8 per cent tankage, and they seem to be moving along nicely. Without the slop we don't think they would hold ...

— One Thousand Questions in California Agriculture Answered • E.J. Wickson