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thrallage

thrallage is the alternative 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.

Origin of thrallage

From thrall + -age.

Questions about thrallage

What is thrallage the alternative form of?
Thrallage is the alternative form of thirlage.

Words near thrallage in the dictionary

  1. thralage
  2. thraldom
  3. thraldoms
  4. Thrale
  5. thrall
  6. thrallage
  7. thrallborn
  8. thralldom
  9. thralldoms
  10. thralled
  11. thraller

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Adapted from Wiktionary: thrallage (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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