Flowage

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Flowage \Flow"age\ (?; 48), n.
     An overflowing with water; also, the water which thus
     overflows.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  flowage
       n 1: gradual internal motion or deformation of a solid body (as
            by heat); "rock fracture and rock flowage are different
            types of geological deformation"
       2: a body of water that has been created by deliberately
          flooding an area; "many campsites were located near the
          flowage"
       3: the act of flooding; filling to overflowing [syn: {flood}]