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单词 fumage
释义 I. ˈfumage1 Hist.
[ad. med.L. fūmāgium, f. fūm-us smoke.]
Hearth-money.
1755in Johnson.1765Blackstone Comm. I. vii. 323 As early as the conquest mention is made in domesday book of fumage or fuage, vulgarly called smoke farthings; which were paid by custom to the king for every chimney in the house.1876S. Dowell Taxes in Eng. (1888) I. i. 10 A fumage, or tax of smoke farthings, or hearth tax..ranges among those of the Anglo-Saxon period.
II. ˈfumage2 Obs.—0
[a. F. fumage, f. fumer to dung.]
(See quot. 1725.)
1676–1732Coles, Fumage, manuring with dung.1725Bradley Fam. Dict., Fumage, a Term in Agriculture signifying Dung, or manuring with Dung.
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