pontage
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin pons, pontis (“a bridge”): compare French pontage.
Noun edit
pontage (countable and uncountable, plural pontages)
- (UK, law, obsolete) A duty or tax paid for repairing bridges.
- 1726, John Ayliffe, Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani: Or, A Commentary, by Way of Supplement to the Canons and Constitutions of the Church of England. […], London: […] D. Leach, and sold by John Walthoe […], →OCLC:
- They pay no Toll for Goods which they have in Right of the Church , and were formerly by the common Law discharg'd from Pontage and Murage
References edit
- “pontage”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams edit
French edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
pontage m (plural pontages)
- (medicine) bypass (an alternative passage created to divert a bodily fluid around a damaged organ)
- bridge-building
Further reading edit
- “pontage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.