pannage

English

Etymology

Borrowed into Middle English from Old French pasnage (modern French panage), from Late Latin pasnadium, pastinaticum, from pastionare (“to feed on mast, as swine”), from Latin pastio (“a pasturing, grazing”). See pastor.

Noun

pannage (countable and uncountable, plural pannages)

1. Acorns and beech mast used as forage for pigs.
2. Feeding of pigs on acorns and beech mast in the woods.
3. The right to feed pigs in this manner.
4. (historical) A tax formerly paid for the privilege of feeding swine in the woods.
   • 1861, (Please provide the book title or journal name):

     There is there a certain wood called Heton-woode in oaks and the like, in which the tenants of Heton, who hold by charter in fee, have house-bote and hay-bote, of the delivery of the lord; by which that wood is wasted [or much destroyed, destruitur], and on that account does not grow again as much in yearly value, in wood, pannage, or other issues of a wood.

Translations

right to feed pigs, tax

• Latin: pasnagium n, pasnadium n, pastinaticum n
• Welsh: mesfraint f

Further reading

• James A. H. Murray et al., editors (1884–1928), “Pannage”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume VII (O–P), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 424, column 2.
• pannage on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• panaeng