In 6 stannage. [f. STAND v. + -AGE.]
1. Arrangements or accommodation for standing. Also, a charge for permission to stand.
1777. Barmby Inclos. Act, 10. Settling the standage for the crops.
1848. Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc., IX. I. 120. The object is to give a firm standage for cattle drinking at the pond.
1896. Times, 18 Dec., 13/5. The action was to recover from the defendant … in respect of sidage or standage rent charged upon trucks remainin upon the sidings of the company longer than four days.
1907. Advt. [Northumbld.], Standage for Motors and Cycles.
† b. A standing, stall. Obs.
1600. S. Forman, Autobiogr. (1849), 8. They kept a stannage at our Ladie faier, and ther were many knavishe boies which were at play behinde the stannage, and often thruste downe their ware.
2. Mining. An underground reservoir for water.
1842. 1st Rep. Comm. Employmt. Childr. Mines, 59. 15 fathoms lower being sunk for ‘standage,’ or for a reservoir of water.
1875. J. H. Collins, Princ. Metal Mining, 53. The space underneath serves as a water channel and standage or sump.
1883. Gresley, Gloss. Coal-mining, 237.
