Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An occasional tax levied by the Anglo-Norman kings on crown lands and royal towns.
- transitive verb To levy a tax on.
from The Century Dictionary.
- etc. See
tailage , etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (O. Eng. Law) A certain rate or tax paid by barons, knights, and inferior tenants, toward the public expenses.
- transitive verb To lay an impost upon; to cause to pay tallage.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
impost . - noun UK, law, obsolete A certain
rate ortax paid bybarons ,knights , andinferior tenants toward thepublic expenses . - verb To lay an
impost upon. - verb To cause to pay tallage.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Middle English taillage, from Old French, from taillier, to cut, tax; see tailor.]
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French taillage.
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yarb commented on the word tallage
"...also his lawyer up from Philadelphia with his bulging briefcase, the sheer tax-maneuvering his wife's behaviour had now got him into! his own cursing yeoman forebears hadn't been amerced with a blacker set of reliefs and merchets, church-scot and plough-arms and smoke-farthings and hearthpenny on Holy Thursday, and nowadays who could he tallage in return?"
- W.M. Spackman, An Armful of Warm Girl
December 22, 2011