peage

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   archaic: a toll or duty charged for passage along a road or across a bridge, river, or other route, often on transported goods

   Merchants paid a peage on every wagon that crossed the lord's bridge.

From Middle English payage and Middle French paiage, now French péage, from Medieval Latin pedaticum or pedagium, a passage charge, based on Latin pes, pedis, 'foot.' The history reflects a levy originally associated with setting foot on or passing through another's land.

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