tronage
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From trone (“a steelyard”) -age.
Noun
[edit]tronage (countable and uncountable, plural tronages)
- (obsolete) The weighing of wool.
- (obsolete) A toll or duty paid for weighing wool.
- 1787, Francis Hargrave, A Collection of Tracts Relative to the Law of England:
- he gave an account also of the profits of the tronage; as appears in the accompts of the customs, in the times of king Edward the first , Edward the second , Edward the third
References
[edit]- “tronage”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.