different between mockage vs lockage

mockage

English

Etymology

mock +? -age

Noun

mockage (countable and uncountable, plural mockages)

  1. (obsolete) Mockery; mocking.
    • a mockage of marriage
    • 1662, The Works of the Great Albionean Divine ... Mr Hugh Broughton, page 409:
      I [...] say the Apocrypha be all lying works or Ironies: mockages of fools.

Further reading

  • mockage in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

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lockage

English

Etymology

lock +? -age

Noun

lockage (countable and uncountable, plural lockages)

  1. Materials for locks in a canal.
  2. The works forming a canal lock or locks.
  3. A toll paid for passing the locks of a canal.
  4. The amount of elevation and descent made by the locks of a canal.
    The entire lockage will be about fifty feet. — De Witt Clinton.
  5. (colloquial) A situation where things lock together.

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