I. -dij, -dēj noun
( -s )
Etymology: yard (II) + -age
1. : the use of a livestock enclosure for animals in transit provided by a railroad at a station
2. : a charge made by a railroad for the use of a livestock enclosure
II. noun
( -s )
Etymology: yard (I) + -age
1. : the linear yards of advance made or cubic yards mined used as a basis for determining wages of coal miners
2.
a. : an aggregate number of yards
a large yardage of work-shirt chambrays — John Hoye
the par and yardage of each of the ten golf courses — New York Herald Tribune
b. : an amount expressed in yards: as
(1) : an extent (as of cloth) measured in linear yards
the dress floats out to an extravagant drift of yardage at the hem — New York Times
(2) : a distance covered in linear yards
running plays that piled up yardage — Time
(3) : an area covered in square yards
increase plaster yardage by sizing dry walls
(4) : a volume of materials in cubic yards
every great dam requires the moving of immense yardage — Newsweek
3. : yard goods
they've been buying satin yardage … for a month now — Ray Bradbury