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borrowages

borrowages is the plural of borrowage.

Meaning of borrowage

Noun

borrowage (countable and uncountable, plural borrowages)

  1. (historical, obsolete) Synonym of suretyship
    • The bailies then took the position of burghal officers, and were elected by the burgesses, but they still acted as officers of the crown in giving possession, or sasine as it was called, to the several burgh holdings, or borrowages as they were termed, whenever these were transferred to purchasers...1911, Sir James David Marwick, Robert Renwick, Early Glasgow, page 2
    Synonyms:
    suretyship
  2. (obsolete) The act of borrowing.

Questions about borrowages

What is borrowages the plural of?
Borrowages is the plural of borrowage.

Words near borrowages in the dictionary

  1. borrow'd
  2. borrowability
  3. borrowable
  4. borrowables
  5. borrowage
  6. borrowages
  7. Borrowash
  8. borrowback
  9. borrowbacks
  10. Borrowby
  11. Borrowdale

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