单词 | pesage |
释义 | pesagen. Now historical. ΚΠ c1450 (c1425) Brut (Cambr. Kk.1.12) 338 (MED) Þere þai ladde & fryȝt lj schyppez with peseage [v.r. pilage] for to haue come yn to Engelonde. 2. A duty imposed for the service of weighing commodities. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > duty on goods > dues for weighing or measuring goods > [noun] tronagea1325 pesage1455 weigh-gilt1497 metage1527 weighage1547 poisage1611 1455 in R. R. Sharpe Cal. Let.-bks. London (1911) K. 369 (MED) [John] Mabywe [had been committed to prison for refusing to pay] pesage [for grinding and weighing his corn and flour]. 1455 Rolls of Parl. V. 311/2 Profittes and Emolumentes of Waters, Fisshynges, Mylnes, Cranages, Stallages, Peisages, Passages. 1699 E. Hatton Merchant's Mag. (ed. 3) xiv. 236 Pesage, custom for weighing. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Pesage, a Custom or Duty paid for the weighing of Merchandizes or Wares. 1824 Sir J. W. Chitty Laws Commerce II. 16 Weighage, called either tronage for weighing wool at the king's beam, or pesage, for weighing other avoirdupoise goods. 1894 A. S. Green Town Life 15th Cent. I. v. 183 ‘Pesage’,..[a] toll..for the weighing of goods. 1956 J. W. F. Hill Tudor & Stuart Lincoln ii. 22 The tronage and pesage of wools in the days of the staple had been worth £100. 1993 Dict. National Biogr. at Herland, Hugh After Edward III's death Herland was regranted the pesage of wools at Queenborough. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1450 |
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