pedage

English edit

Etymology edit

Noun edit

pedage (countable and uncountable, plural pedages)

(obsolete) A toll or tax paid by passengers travelling through a specific place, entitling them to safe conduct and protection.
- 1784, Francis Grose, The Antiquities of England and Wales, volume 6, page 99:
  He^{[Richard III]} also excused them from danegeld, aids, scutage, or a tax of 40/s. payable out of every knight's fee; pontage, or a toll for the reparation of bridges; pedage, or money collected from foot passengers for passing through a forest or county; carriage, tolls for repairing of castles or cleaning of fosses; stallage, or a fee paid for erecting stalls in a fair or market; and talliage, or taxes in general; forbidding every man from arresting any person within their premisses, without license from the abbott and convent.
- 1814, John Britton, editor, The History and Antiquities of the Cathedral Church of Salisbury, page 26:
  This charter specifies that "New Saresbury" shall be for ever a free city, enclosed with ditches, or trenches; that the citizens shall be quit throughout the land of toll, pontage, passage, pedage, lastage, stallage, carriage, and all other customs; […] .
- 1819, "Pedage", entry in Abraham Rees (editor), The Cyclopædia: Or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature, Volume 26, unnumbered page,
  Pedage is uſually levied for the repairing of roads, bridges, and cauſeways, the paving of ſtreets, &c. Anciently, thoſe who had the right of pedage were to keep the roads ſecure, and anſwer for all robberies committed on the paſſengers between ſun and ſun; […] .

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “pedage”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)