rare. [f. CANAL sb. + -AGE.] The construction of canals; canal-work.
1830. New Hamshire Reports, IV. 537. 1823, October, To sawing and canalage of 85091 feet of lumber at 15s. $212.73.
1847. Frankfort Commonwealth, 9 Nov., 2/2. As the falls are always on rocky formations and generally at the gorges of the hills, the canalage and excavation of sites for buildings and the making of roads to the spot is attended with great expense.
1854. W. Chambers, in Chamb. Jrnl., 211/2. Vast as has been the outlay on this extensive system of canalage, in order to avoid the rapids of the St Lawrence, it cannot be considered a useless expenditure of public money.
1866. Daily Missouri Republican, 20 June, 2/1. It [the system of irrigation in Utah] now embraces a canalage executed one thousand and sixty-four miles long.
