levelages

Noun

levelage (countable and uncountable, plural levelages)

1. The act or process of leveling.
   • Since connection was made by levelage with German main shaft, a large body of ore has been opened which is being backstoped.^([sic])1881, The Mining Record - Volume 16, page 280
2. The measured level of something.
   • The surface of Lake Erie has generally been considered as five hundred and sixty-four feet above tide-water at Albany; see the Report of Michigan, 1839-40. The topographer of that State, S.W. Higgins, Esq., puts it at 565, 333 feet. If this last number represents the levelage of the Erie Canal, it...1852, Charles Whittlesey, Fugitive essays, upon interesting and useful subjects, page 91