chiminage

English

Etymology

From Old French cheminage, from chemin (“way, road”).

Noun

chiminage (plural chiminages)

1. (obsolete, law) A toll paid for passage through a forest.
   • 1564, Statutes made and established from the Time of Kyng Henry the Thirde:

     Chiminage ſhal not be taken but in ſuch places only wher it hath ben vſed to be. Those which beare upon their backes bruſhment, barke or cole to ſel; though it be their liuing, ſhall paie no chiminage to our foſters

References

• “chiminage”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.