[f. YARD sb.2 + -AGE.]
1. The cutting of coal at a fixed rate per yard.
1877. Raymond, Statist. Mines & Mining, 8. The amount for yardage … includes powder, fuse, and candles furnished by contractors and paid for as labor.
1887. Manch. Exam., 8 Dec., 5/2. The men employed at the … Colliery … have struck for an advance of wages of 10 per cent. They also demand an extra 25 per cent. on yardage.
2. The aggregate number of yards; amount estimated in yards.
1900. Referee, 23 Sept., 1 (Cass. Suppl.). That the courses as measured from end were as represented in yardage.
1906. Daily News, 3 Feb., 8. The yardage of linen goods exported in 1905 was the largest in any year during the last twenty.
