[= F. tubage (Littré, 1874), f. tube TUBE: see -AGE.]

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  1.  Surg. The introduction of a tube into a cavity or canal; esp. intubation of the larynx.

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1880.  M. Mackenzie, Dis. Throat & Nose, I. 181. I must here briefly refer to the subject of catheterism and ‘tubage’ of the larynx.

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1886.  in Trans. Amer. Pediatric Soc. (1897), IX. 29. [In 1886 O’Dwyer predicted] that at no distant day tracheotomy would be entirely superseded by ‘tubage of the larynx.’

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1896.  [see INTUBATION].

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  b.  Ordnance. The insertion of an inner tube or lining in the bore of a cannon; also, the process of shrinking an outer tube on an inner bore.

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1882.  Rep. of Chief of U. S. Ordnance, 244 (Cent. Dict.). The present short steel tube has been the result of the essays in the tubage of guns.

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  2.  Tubes collectively; tubing; a system of tubes; in quot., in a tubular boiler.

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1896.  Daily News, 20 April, 5/1. When the fires are at work, the slender tubage heaves and throbs, and through it scurries the river of steam-generating water.

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