pesage

English

Etymology

From French pesage, from peser (“to weigh”).

Noun

pesage (plural pesages)

1. A fee or toll paid for the weighing of merchandise.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

Anagrams

• peages

French

Pronunciation

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Noun

pesage m (plural pesages)

1. weighing
2. weighing in (of a jockey before/after a race)

Further reading

• “pesage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.