flotage

• floatage

From Old French flotage (modern French flottage).

flotage (countable and uncountable, plural flotages)

1. The state of floating.
2. Something which floats on the sea or in rivers; flotsam.
3. The floating capacity of a thing, especially a vessel.

• “flotage”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• flotaige

floter +‎ -age.

flotage oblique singular, m (oblique plural flotages, nominative singular flotages, nominative plural flotage)

1. act of diverting water from a river to a meadow or field

• flotaison

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (flotage)