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thralage

thralage is the obsolete form of thirlage.

Meaning of thirlage

Noun

thirlage (countable and uncountable, plural thirlages)

  1. (Scotland, historical) The right of the owner of a mill to compel tenants to bring all their grain to that mill for milling.

Questions about thralage

What is thralage the obsolete form of?
Thralage is the obsolete form of thirlage.

Words near thralage in the dictionary

  1. Thracomania
  2. Thrailkill
  3. Thrailkills
  4. thrain
  5. thrains
  6. thralage
  7. thraldom
  8. thraldoms
  9. Thrale
  10. thrall
  11. thrallage

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Adapted from Wiktionary: thralage (page history and authors); thirlage (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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