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faldage

faldage noun: a privilege of setting up, and moving about, sheepfolds, in any fields within manors, in order to manure them or to keep others' cattle therein. This privilege was often reserved to himself by the lord of the manor.

Noun

faldage (countable and uncountable, plural faldages)

  1. (Norfolk, obsolete) A privilege of setting up, and moving about, sheepfolds, in any fields within manors, in order to manure them or to keep others' cattle therein. This privilege was often reserved to himself by the lord of the manor.
    • It was decided , in a case where the lord of a manor had liberty of faldage and a fold-course for 300 sheep over certain closes within the manor, that the lessee of these rights could not feed his own sheep over these closes1868, Charles Isaac Elton, A Treatise on Commons and Wastelands
  2. (obsolete) A fee paid for exemption from this.

Forms of faldage

pluralfaldages

Origin of faldage

From Latin faldagium, from Old English fald (whence English fold). Compare foldage.

Questions about faldage

What does faldage mean?
Faldage means a privilege of setting up, and moving about, sheepfolds, in any fields within manors, in order to manure them or to keep others' cattle therein. This privilege was often reserved to himself by the lord of the manor.
What part of speech is faldage?
Faldage is a noun.
What is the plural of faldage?
The plural of faldage is faldages.

Words near faldage in the dictionary

  1. falcula
  2. falcular
  3. falculate
  4. Falcón
  5. falda
  6. faldage
  7. faldages
  8. faldaprevir
  9. faldas
  10. Falder
  11. falderal

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