Meanings
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1
noun
historical: a tax or compulsory payment levied by a feudal lord or monarch on tenants, towns, or royal lands
The crown imposed a new tallage on several towns within the royal domain.
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2
verb
historical: to impose tallage on a person, community, or property
The lord claimed the right to tallage his tenants whenever extraordinary revenue was needed.
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Etymology
From Middle English tallage and Anglo-French taillage, from tailler ('to cut, assess, tax'). The underlying image is of a share cut from a person's property or income; tailor belongs to the same word family.