piccage

English

Alternative forms

• pickage

Etymology

Latin piccadium, from French piquer (“to prick”).

Noun

piccage (plural piccages)

1. (law, UK, obsolete or historical) Money paid at fairs for permission to break ground for booths[14th–19th c.].

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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