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† ˈterrage Obs.
Also 5 terage.
[a. OF. terage (13th c. in Godef.):—pop. L. terrāticum (869 in Du Cange), f. L. terra earth: see -age. Hence med.L. terrāgium (1030 in Du Cange).]
1. Land; a territory, district.
c1400Destr. Troy 1072 Þai comen to the cost..of the terage of Troy. Ibid. 13631 Þat Pirrus schuld haue þe terrage of tessayle and þe tryed corone. c1440Promp. Parv. 489/1 Terage, erthe, humus, solum, terragium.
2. Old Law. Some kind of payment or duty. (Actual meaning uncertain; see quots.)
The statements of the 17th c. law dicts. are guesses. Gross takes it as = pickage. But, as some charters have terrage besides stallage and pickage, the meaning may be payment for the ground or ‘stance’ occupied at a fair or market without breaking the ground.[1301Lincoln Charter in Cal. Charter Rolls III. 9. 1349 in W. Hardy Lancaster Charters (1845) 6 Quod..sint quieti de pavagio, passagio, paagio, lastagio, stallagio, tallagio, cariagio, pesagio, piccagio, et terragio.] 1691Blount Law Dict., Terrage (Terragium) [quotes the prec. patent, and says] which seems to be an exemption á Præcariis, viz. Boons of Plowing, Reaping, &c. and perhaps from Money paid for digging or breaking the Earth in Fairs and Markets. 1749in Pote Hist. Windsor 120 (Transl. of a Charter) That the said Custos or Canons and their tenants should for ever be free from payment of Toll, Picage, Paviage,..Terrage [etc.]. [1890Gross Gild Merchant II. 420 Terragium. The same as Picagium (413), Duty paid by a stranger on markets and fairs to break the ground and erect a stall.] 3. ? A toll or duty paid for landing; landing dues.
[1318Grimsby Charter in Cal. Charter Rolls III. 411 [tr. quit of toll..hansage, anchorage, terrage, quayage, passage, and pedage]. ]1664Hale Treat. ii. iv. in Hargrave Coll. Tracts (1787) I. 57 The defendants..shewed usage to have had certain customs called land-leave, terrage, &c. Ibid. vi. 76 Terrage, for the necessary unlading of goods before they come up to the common key. |