Definitions for tankage

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tankage tank·age

Spelling: [tang-kij]

IPA: /ˈtæŋ kɪdʒ/

Tankage is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 125 anagrams from letters in tankage (aaegknt).

Definitions for tankage

noun

1. the capacity of a tank or tanks.
2. the act or process of storing liquid in a tank.
3. the fee charged for such storage.
4. the residue from tanks in which carcasses and other offal have been steamed and the fat has been rendered, used as a fertilizer.

Origin of tankage

First recorded in 1865-70; tank + -age

Examples for tankage

In Louisiana large quantities of tankage, cotton-seed meal, and acid phosphate are used to fertilize cane-fields.

More often the tankage provided is insufficient, and thousands of barrels escape.

tankage may be used in part, and in it the nitrogen costs very little more per pound.

The manufacturer gets his supply of phosphoric acid from rock, bone, or tankage exactly as does the home-mixer.

Manufacturers claim that sulphate of ammonia and tankage would be better.

If half the required nitrogen per acre, or 4½ pounds, is wanted in tankage, 50 pounds of the tankage will supply it.