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pedages

pedages is the plural of pedage.

Meaning of pedage

Noun

pedage (countable and uncountable, plural pedages)

  1. (historical, obsolete) 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

Questions about pedages

What is pedages the plural of?
Pedages is the plural of pedage.

Words near pedages in the dictionary

  1. peda
  2. pedabarography
  3. pedabro
  4. pedabros
  5. pedage
  6. pedages
  7. pedagese
  8. pedagog
  9. pedagogal
  10. pedagoged
  11. pedagogeries

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