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pannage

/ ˈpænɪdʒ /

noun

  1. pasturage for pigs, esp in a forest
  2. the right to pasture pigs in a forest
  3. payment for this
  4. acorns, beech mast, etc, on which pigs feed
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of pannage1

C13: from Old French pasnage, ultimately from Latin pastion-, pastiō feeding, from pascere to feed
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Example Sentences

Better spelt pannage or paunage (Manwood has pawnage), as cited in Blount's Nomolexicon.

The pannage pig or the grass swine, which the villeins give in return for mast and herbage, is often mentioned.

He must pay toll to the bishop when he buys and sells; he must pay tace, apparently the pannage of a later time, for his pigs.

We constantly find such entries as "a wood for pannage of fifty hogs."

Pannage is paid in the same way for the swine grazing in the woods.

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