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pontage

pontage noun: a duty or tax paid for repairing bridges.

Noun

pontage (countable and uncountable, plural pontages)

  1. (UK, obsolete) A duty or tax paid for repairing bridges.
    • They pay no Toll for Goods which they have in Right of the Church , and were formerly by the common Law discharg'd from Pontage and Murage1726, John Ayliffe, Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani: Or, A Commentary, by Way of Supplement to the Canons and Constitutions of the Church of England. […], London: […] D. Leach, and sold by John...

Forms of pontage

pluralpontages

Origin of pontage

From Latin pons, pontis (“a bridge”): compare French pontage.

Questions about pontage

What does pontage mean?
Pontage means a duty or tax paid for repairing bridges.
What part of speech is pontage?
Pontage is a noun.
What is the plural of pontage?
The plural of pontage is pontages.

Words near pontage in the dictionary

  1. Pont-y-pant
  2. Pont-y-rhyl
  3. Pont-à-Vendin
  4. Ponta Delgada
  5. Pontacq
  6. pontage
  7. pontages
  8. pontal
  9. Pontardawe
  10. Pontarddulais
  11. Pontarelli

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