pannage
pannage noun: acorns and beech mast used as forage for pigs.
Noun
pannage (countable and uncountable, plural pannages)
- Acorns and beech mast used as forage for pigs.
- Feeding of pigs on acorns and beech mast in the woods.
- The right to feed pigs in this manner.
- A tax formerly paid for the privilege of feeding swine in the woods.
- There is there a certain wood called Heton-woode in oaks and the like, in which the tenants of Heton, who hold by charter in fee, have house-bote and hay-bote, of the delivery of the lord; by which that wood is wasted [or much destroyed, destruitur], and on that account does not grow again as much...1861, (Please provide the book title or journal name)
pannage meaning in Kannada
pannage in Kannada
- ಹಂದಿಗಳನ್ನು ಮೇಯಿಸುವ ಹಕ್ಕು, ಕೊಡಬೇಕಾದ ರುಸುಮು, ಹಂದಿತಿನಿಸು
Forms of pannage
| plural | pannages |
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Origin of pannage
Borrowed into Middle English from Old French pasnage (modern French panage), from Late Latin pasnadium, pastinaticum, from pastionare (“to feed on mast, as swine”), from Latin pastio (“a pasturing, grazing”). See pastor.
Words formed from pannage
Questions about pannage
- What does pannage mean?
- Pannage means acorns and beech mast used as forage for pigs.
- What is pannage in Kannada?
- Pannage in Kannada is ಹಂದಿಗಳನ್ನು ಮೇಯಿಸುವ ಹಕ್ಕು, ಕೊಡಬೇಕಾದ ರುಸುಮು, ಹಂದಿತಿನಿಸು. See Pannage meaning in Kannada.
- What part of speech is pannage?
- Pannage is a noun.
- What is the plural of pannage?
- The plural of pannage is pannages.
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