[f. FLOOD sb. + -AGE.] A flooded state, inundation.
1864. Carlyle, Fredk. Gt., IV. XII. vi. 164. This place, my Dryasdust informs me, had many accidents by floodage and by fire.
1870. Law Rep., Com. Pleas V., 667. The effect of the milldam … is to cause back water, or as it is called, floodage on the land above.
