chiminage
English edit
Etymology edit
From Old French cheminage, from chemin (“way, road”).
Noun edit
chiminage (plural chiminages)
- (obsolete, law) A toll paid for passage through a forest.
- 1564, Statutes made and established from the Time of Kyng Henry the Thirde:
- Chiminage ſhal not be taken but in ſuch places only wher it hath ben vſed to be. Those which beare upon their backes bruſhment, barke or cole to ſel; though it be their liuing, ſhall paie no chiminage to our foſters
References edit
- “chiminage”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.