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prisages

prisages is the plural of prisage.

Meaning of prisage

Noun

prisage (countable and uncountable, plural prisages)

  1. (UK, obsolete) A right belonging to the crown of England, of taking two tuns of wine from every ship importing twenty tuns or more: one before and one behind the mast.
    • There is also another very ancient hereditary duty belonging to the crown, called the prisage, or butlerage of wines1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC
  2. (obsolete) The share of merchandise taken as lawful prize at sea which belongs to the king or admiral.

Questions about prisages

What is prisages the plural of?
Prisages is the plural of prisage.

Words near prisages in the dictionary

  1. Priponești
  2. Pripyat
  3. pris
  4. prisable
  5. prisage
  6. prisages
  7. Prisca
  8. priscan
  9. Priscian
  10. Priscilla
  11. Priscillian

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