ullage

3 definitions found

ullage - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  ullage \ul"lage\ ([u^]l"l[asl]j; 48), n. [OF. eullage, ouillage,
     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.
     [1913 Webster]

ullage - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  ullage
      n 1: the amount that a container (as a wine bottle or tank)
           lacks of being full

ullage - Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :

  ULLAGE, com. law. When a cask is gauged, what it wants of being full is 
  called ullage.