flotage

English

Alternative forms

• floatage

Etymology

From Old French flotage (modern French flottage).

Noun

flotage (countable and uncountable, plural flotages)

1. The state of floating.
2. Something which floats on the sea or in rivers; flotsam.
3. The floating capacity of a thing, especially a vessel.

References

• “flotage”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Old French

Alternative forms

• flotaige

Etymology

floter +‎ -age.

Noun

flotage oblique singular, m (oblique plural flotages, nominative singular flotages, nominative plural flotage)

1. act of diverting water from a river to a meadow or field

Synonyms

• flotaison

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (flotage)