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pontage|ˈpɒntɪdʒ|
Now Hist. or local.
[a. OF. pontage (1401 in Godef.):—med.L. pontāticum (Du Cange) a bridge-toll, f. L. pons, pont-em bridge + -āticum, -age.]
A toll paid for the use of a bridge; a tax paid for the maintenance and repair of a bridge or bridges; bridge-toll.
[1157in Chron. Stephen, etc. (Rolls) IV. App. 337 Fecit liberas de omni consuetudine et theloneo et passagio et pontagio. 1292Britton i. xx. §1 Lestage..ou murage, ou pontage, ou cheminage.] c1450Godstow Reg. 666 A Charter..to the mynchons..for tol, passage, pountage, and all custome thurgh all Englond. a1500tr. Charter Rich. II in Arnolde Chron. (1811) 22 Yt they..be quyt for euer of pauage pontage and murage by al our reame. 1597–8Act 39 Eliz. c. 34 §6 Pontage shall be payde..at the sayde Brydge..for every..Wayne, Carre, or Carte..two pence. 1735J. Price Stone-Br. Thames 5 A House on each Head of the Bridge, erected to receive the Toll or Pontage. 1895Glasgow Weekly News 19 Jan. 7/8 Subscriptions so as to have the Leven bridges free from the objectionable pontage.
†b. free pontage, freedom from bridge-toll.
1695Kennett Par. Antiq. ix. 201 All right and title to a new Mill,..with free pontage or passage over the River. |