cornage

English edit

Etymology edit

From Latin cornū (“horn”).

Noun edit

cornage (countable and uncountable, plural cornages)

A feudal tax levied on horned cattle.
(law) An ancient tenure of land, which obliged the tenant to give notice of an invasion by blowing a horn.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “cornage”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams edit

acrogen