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ulnage

ulnage is the obsolete form of alnage.

Meaning of alnage

Noun

alnage (plural alnages)

  1. (historical) Measurement (of cloth) by the ell, specifically, official inspection and measurement of woollen cloth, and attestation of its value by the affixing of a lead seal, as was once required by British law.
    • Poets and kings are but the clerks of Time,
      Tiering the same dull webs of discontent,
      Clipping the same sad alnage of the years.1896, Edwin Arlington Robinson, The Clerks
  2. (historical) A duty paid for such measurement.

Origin of ulnage

A form of alnage ultimately influenced by Latin ulna.

Questions about ulnage

What is ulnage the obsolete form of?
Ulnage is the obsolete form of alnage.

Words near ulnage in the dictionary

  1. Ulmu
  2. uln-
  3. ulna
  4. ulnad
  5. ulnae
  6. ulnage
  7. ulnar
  8. ulnar arteries
  9. ulnar artery
  10. ulnar loop
  11. ulnar loops

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ulnage (page history and authors); alnage (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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