pedage
pedage noun: a toll or tax paid by passengers travelling through a specific place, entitling them to safe conduct and protection.
Noun
pedage (countable and uncountable, plural pedages)
- A toll or tax paid by passengers travelling through a specific place, entitling them to safe conduct and protection.
- He^([Richard III]) also excused them from danegeld, aids, scutage, or a tax of 40/s. payable out of every knight's fee; pontage, or a toll for the reparation of bridges; pedage, or money collected from foot passengers for passing through a forest or county; carriage, tolls for repairing of castles...1784, Francis Grose, The Antiquities of England and Wales, volume 6, page 99
- This charter specifies that "New Saresbury" shall be for ever a free city, enclosed with ditches, or trenches; that the citizens shall be quit throughout the land of toll, pontage, passage, pedage, lastage, stallage, carriage, and all other customs;[…].1814, John Britton, editor, The History and Antiquities of the Cathedral Church of Salisbury, page 26
Forms of pedage
| plural | pedages |
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Origin of pedage
From Latin pedagium, for pedaticum. By surface analysis, ped- (“foot”) + -age.
Questions about pedage
- What does pedage mean?
- Pedage means a toll or tax paid by passengers travelling through a specific place, entitling them to safe conduct and protection.
- What part of speech is pedage?
- Pedage is a noun.
- What is the plural of pedage?
- The plural of pedage is pedages.
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