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foldage

foldage is the alternative form of faldage.

Meaning of faldage

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.

Questions about foldage

What is foldage the alternative form of?
Foldage is the alternative form of faldage.

Words near foldage in the dictionary

  1. foldable
  2. foldable rooftop
  3. foldable rooftops
  4. foldables
  5. foldably
  6. foldage
  7. foldamer
  8. foldameric
  9. foldamers
  10. foldase
  11. foldases

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