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–noun

1.	the amount by which the contents fall short of filling a container, as a cask or bottle.

2.	the quantity of wine, liquor, or the like, remaining in a container that has lost part of its contents by evaporation, leakage, or use.

3.	Rocketry. the volume of a loaded tank of liquid propellant in excess of the volume of the propellant; the space provided for thermal expansion of the propellant and the accumulation of gases evolved from it.

[Origin: 1400–50; late ME < AF ulliage; OF ouillage, (h)eullage wine needed to fill a cask, equiv. to (a)ouill(er) to fill (a cask) (deriv. of ouil eye, hole < L oculus) + -age -age

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ullaged, adjective

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n.

The amount of liquid within a container that is lost, as by leakage, during shipment or storage.
The amount by which a container, such as a bottle, cask, or tank, falls short of being full.

[Middle English ulage, from Old French ouillage, from ouiller, to fill up a cask, from ouil, eye, bunghole, from Latin oculus, eye; see ok^w- in Indo-European roots.]

ul'laged adj.

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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
ullage

"amount by which a cask or bottle falls short of being full," 1481, from Anglo-Fr. ulliage (1329), Anglo-L. oliagium (1297), O.Fr. ouillage, from ouiller "to fill up (a barrel) to the bung," lit. "to fill to the eye," from ueil "eye," from L. ochulus.

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ullage
noun
the amount that a container (as a wine bottle or tank) lacks of being full

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

Ullage

Ul"lage\ (?; 48), n. [OF. eullage, ovillage, the filling up of a cask, fr. ouillier, oillier, euillier, to fill a wine cask; properly, to add oil to prevent evaporation, as to a flask that is nearly full, fr. OF. oile oil. See Oil.] (Com.) The amount which a vessel, as a cask, of liquor lacks of being full; wantage; deficiency.

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