Pannage
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Pannage is a noun meaning Acorns and beech mast used as forage for pigs.
Meaning
Acorns and beech mast used as forage for pigs.
More Meanings
- Feeding of pigs on acorns and beech mast in the woods.
- The right to feed pigs in this manner.
- (historical) A tax formerly paid for the privilege of feeding swine in the woods.
Example Sentences
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.
Word Forms
- pannages
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include mast, buckmast, beechmast, browsewood, beechwood, pigweed.
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