a customary obligation to construct or maintain a bridge or bridges; a tax or contribution for the repair of bridges.

money collected or allocated for the maintenance and repair of bridges; cf. bridge money n.

the repair of the fence or wall of a park; the duty levied for this.

money paid for the maintenance of defensive ditches; = fossage, n.

A toll for the use of a bridge; a tax paid for the maintenance and repair of a bridge or bridges.

A toll or tax levied for the building or repairing of town walls (later more fully murage duty); the right granted to a town for the levying of such…

A tax or toll towards the paving of highways or streets; (also) the right to levy such a tax or toll. Now historical.

(a) a toll paid to cross a bridge (now chiefly historical); (b) money collected or allocated for the maintenance and repair of a bridge or bridges.

? a payment of a hen for the maintenance of fox-hunting.

money paid for the maintenance of a jail.

a tax paid in grain by tenant farmers towards the upkeep of the dams and races of the estate mill.

Toll paid for the maintainance of beacons.

the keeping of a castle in repair, a contribution levied for this purpose.

a tax for the repair of fortresses.

Tribute paid for the construction and maintenance of barbicans.

= highway tax n.

A toll or tax levied for the maintenance or repair of defensive ditches. Cf. murage, n. 1, pontage, n.

taxes formerly imposed for maintenance of the Royal Mint.