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pawnage

pawnage is the alternative form of pannage.

Meaning of pannage

Noun

pannage (countable and uncountable, plural pannages)

  1. Acorns and beech mast used as forage for pigs.
  2. Feeding of pigs on acorns and beech mast in the woods.
  3. The right to feed pigs in this manner.
  4. (historical) 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)

Noun

pawnage (uncountable)

  1. The process of pawning goods.

Forms of pawnage

pluralpawnages

Origin of pawnage

From pawn + -age.

Questions about pawnage

What does pawnage mean?
Pawnage means the process of pawning goods.
What is pawnage the alternative form of?
Pawnage is the alternative form of pannage.
What part of speech is pawnage?
Pawnage is a noun.
What is the plural of pawnage?
The plural of pawnage is pawnages.

Words near pawnage in the dictionary

  1. pawn shops
  2. pawn storm
  3. pawn storms
  4. pawn upon
  5. pawnable
  6. pawnage
  7. pawnages
  8. pawnbroker
  9. pawnbrokerage
  10. pawnbrokerages
  11. pawnbrokeress

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pawnage (page history and authors); pannage (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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