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单词 scavage
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scavagen.

/ˈskavɪdʒ/
Forms: Also Middle English scawage, Middle English–1500s skewage, 1500s skawage, skavag(e, 1600s scavadge.
Etymology: < Anglo-Norman scawage, schawage ( Rolls of Parl. an. 1402), = North-Eastern Old French escauwage , < escauwer to inspect, < Flemish scauwen = Old English scéawian show v.The Old English synonym was scéawung (see showing n.), the Middle English form of which was adopted into Anglo-Norman as scawenge (1419 in Liber Albus 223). In the 15th cent. lawyers were aware of the etymological meaning, and invented the word shewage n. as an explanatory synonym.
1. A toll formerly levied by the mayor, sheriff, or corporation of London and other towns on merchant strangers, on goods offered for sale within their precincts. The toll was prohibited by Act 19 Hen. VII, c. 8. Also attributive. Obsolete exc. Historical.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > duty on goods > [noun] > on goods brought into a town
skewing1312
scavage1444
shewage1500
octroi1714
1444 Rolls of Parl. V. 68/1 Thei pay Skewage for the same merchaundises atte Suthampton.
1474 W. Caxton tr. Game & Playe of Chesse (1883) iii. vii. 139 And by the purse ben signefyed them that reseyue the costumes, tolles, scawage, peages, and duetes of the cytees & townes.
1502 in I. S. Leadam Select Cases Star Chamber (1903) I. 90 He was Skavage gatherer in London, both to the maire and Shreves there.
1502 in I. S. Leadam Select Cases Star Chamber (1903) I. 92 There was skavage askyd by oone James skavage gatherer then of oone Skrevener Freman of Excestre for cloth bi him brought to London by water, and he refusid to pay it.
1503 Rolls of Parl. VI. 550/2 An Act concerning Skavage or Skewage.
c1503 R. Arnold Chron. f. xxxiiijv/2 (heading) The marchaundises wherof scauage ought to [be] taken in london, and how myche.
a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) II. f. xxvi This yere the Cytezyns had graunted of ye Kyng yt no Cytezyns shulde paye Scauage or Tolle for any bestis by them brought, as they before tymes had vsed.
1530–1 Act 22 Hen. VIII c. 8 §4 The tables so to be sette upp in the Cytie of London touchynge Scavage.
1582 Rates Custome House (new ed.) sig. Giij (heading) Scauadge.
1641 W. Hakewill Libertie of Subj. 123 There are other duties then Customes and Subsidies due upon the landing of wares; for example Wharfage, Cranage, Scavage and such like.
1676 C. Molloy De Jure Maritimo (1688) ii. xiv. 325 Scavage is an ancient Toll or Custom exacted by Mayors, Sheriffs, &c. of Merchant-Strangers for Wares shewed or offered to sale within their Precincts.
1800 P. Colquhoun Treat. Commerce & Police R. Thames xi. 332 Of Scavage (i.e. Shewage or Surveying) of certain Goods imported by Foreign Merchants.
2. The fulfilment of the duties of a scavager.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > cleaning streets > [noun]
scavage1547
scavengery1656
scavengering1841
scavagery1851
scavenging1851
scavenage1878
scavenge1912
1547 in E. B. Jupp Carpenters' Co. (1887) 386 Item payd to the skavynger for hys hole yeres skavag,..ij8.
3. Refuse, etc. scavenged from the roads. Obsolete.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > [noun] > dirt removed in cleaning > from streets
fulyie1538
scavage1706
scavenger-stuff1787
1706 in J. E. Cox Ann. St. Helen's Bishopsgate (1876) vii. 127 Mr. Chewter had leave to sink a place for laying in of dung or scavage.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

scavagev.

Etymology: Back-formation < scavager n.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈscavage.
rare.
transitive. = scavenge v. Also intransitive for reflexive (figurative).
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > clean [verb (transitive)]
yclense971
cleansea1000
farmOE
fayc1220
fowc1350
absterse?a1425
mundify?a1425
muck1429
to cast clean1522
absterge1526
sprinkle1526
reconcile1535
net1536
clengec1540
neat?1575
snuff?1575
rinse1595
deterge1623
scavengea1644
scavenger1645
decrott1653
reform1675
clean1681
deterse1684
fluxa1763
to clean away, offa1839
to clean down1839
scavage1851
untaint1855
to sand and canvas1912
1851 H. Mayhew London Labour II. 259/1 The street-orderly system of scavaging the metropolitan thoroughfares.
1852 Meanderings of Memory I. 56 The brain will scavage and the breast unstuff.

Derivatives

ˈscavaging n.
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1851 H. Mayhew London Labour II. 222/1 The scavaging work, moreover, was ‘scamped’.
1851 H. Mayhew London Labour II. 252/2 The general depreciation of wages in the scavaging trade.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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