Pedage

Quick meaning: Pedage is a noun meaning (obsolete or historical) A toll or tax paid by passengers travelling through a specific place, entitling them to safe conduct and protection.

Meaning

(obsolete or historical) A toll or tax paid by passengers travelling through a specific place, entitling them to safe conduct and protection.

Example Sentences

This charter specifies that "New Saresbury" shall be for ever a free city, enclosed with ditches, or trenches; that the citizens shall be quit throughout the land of toll, pontage, passage, pedage, lastage, stallage, carriage, and all other customs;[…].

1819, "Pedage", entry in Abraham Rees (editor), The Cyclopædia: Or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature, Volume 26, unnumbered page, Pedage is uſually levied for the repairing of roads, bridges, and cauſeways, the paving of ſtreets, &c. Anciently, thoſe who had the right of pedage were to keep the roads ſecure, and anſwer for all robberies committed on the paſſengers between ſun and ſun; […] .

Word Forms

• pedages

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include passage, toll, keelage, prestation, pension, pontage.

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