Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The money taken by agistors for the privilege of feeding hogs upon the mast of the forests.
  • noun The mast of beech, acorns, etc., used as food for swine.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The food of swine in the woods, as beechnuts, acorns, etc.; -- called also pawns.
  • noun A tax paid for the privilege of feeding swine in the woods.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Acorns and beech mast used as forage for pigs.
  • noun A tax formerly paid for the privilege of feeding swine in the woods.

Etymologies

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Old French pasnage, Late Latin pasnadium, pastinaticum, from pastionare to feed on mast, as swine, from Latin pastio a pasturing, grazing. See pastor.

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Examples

  • These Verderers Courts have been held since Norman days and the old French terms "pannage,"

    Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter Edric Holmes

  • She's part of a multicoloured herd foraging the woodlands near Bramshaw and is a reminder that the pannage season has been extended.

    xxxxxx 2011

  • First, that all marchants of the sayd kingdomes and countreys may come into our kingdome of England, and any where else into our dominion with their marchandises whatsoeuer safely and securely vnder our defence and protection without paying wharfage, pontage, or pannage.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • ; _Paler_ of the Park, 4l. 11s. 4d., herbage and pannage, 15l.

    The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 491, May 28, 1831 Various

  • Manie other ordinances were decréed touching the preseruation of forrests, and the kings prerogatiue, aduantages and profits rising and growing by the same, as well for sauing of his woods and wasts, as in pannage and agistements, greatlie to the restraint of them that might vsurpe or incroch vpon the grounds within the compasse of his forrests.

    Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (6 of 12) Richard the First Raphael Holinshed

  • It was rated at 1,080 acres, and possessed a church, a mill worth a sovereign, a river containing 1,620 eels, and pannage for 80 hogs.

    Highways & Byways in Sussex E.V. Lucas

  • Among these grievances were claims, by way of composition, for allowing the inhabitants to send their swine to pannage, for exposing their goods for sale in the market, and for the liberty of brewing beer.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913

  • The importance of the family had thus dwindled, but they still retained the old Saxon manor-house, with a couple of farms and a grove large enough to afford pannage to a hundred pigs -- "sylva de centum porcis," as the old family parchments describe it.

    The White Company Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902

  • The importance of the family had thus dwindled, but they still retained the old Saxon manor-house, with a couple of farms and a grove large enough to afford pannage to a hundred pigs -- "sylva de centum porcis," as the old family parchments describe it.

    The White Company Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902

  • Folkland, common and pannage, the theft and the track of kine;

    Traffics and Discoveries Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • In addition to common pasture, commoners were granted rights of pannage, of turbary, of estovers, and of piscary—rights to run their pigs in the woods, to cut peat for fuel, to gather wood from the forests, and to fish.

    The Theft of the Commons Condé Nast 2022

  • In autumn and winter, they were driven out by swineherds to fatten on beech mast and acorns: a practice, beset with folklore and feudal regulation, known as pannage.

    James Buchan · Diary: My Hogs · LRB 18 October 2001 James Buchan 2020

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  • a fee for feeding swine - origin of pork barrel????????????

    January 29, 2010