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单词 fieldage
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fieldagen.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation; perhaps modelled on a French lexical item. Etymons: field n.1, -age suffix.
Etymology: < field n.1 + -age suffix, perhaps after French terrage tax levied on the produce of the land (see terrage n.). N.E.D. (1896) gives the pronunciation as (fī·ldėdʒ) /ˈfiːldɪdʒ/.
Obsolete. rare.
A tax on agricultural produce.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > fixed proportion dues or taxes > [noun] > one-twelfth > of sheaves
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1880 Sunday at Home 24 July 474/1 The tax on harvesting, which they [sc. the French] called fieldage, which amounted sometime to a fourth part of the produce.
1880 Jersey Weekly Press 23 Oct. 21/6 The fieldage or twelfth sheaf..upon a portion of land situate on the said fief.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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