[f. CLEAR v. + -AGE.]
1. The action of clearing or making clear.
1818. in Todd.
1829. [J. L. Knapp], Jrnl. Naturalist, 198. The … clearage of rude and open places, and the drainage of marshy lands.
1869. E. A. Parkes, Pract. Hygiene (ed. 3), 5. The complete clearage of sewers.
† 2. = CLEARING 4. Obs.
1827. Carlyle, Germ. Rom., IV. 347. The owner will abandon his new-grubbed clearage.
3. Comm. = CLEARANCE 8.
1755. Magens, Insurances, I. 201. The … Sum laid out by the Captain … in order to be repaired, and get his Clearage.
