pannage
English
Etymology
From Old French pasnage, 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)
- Acorns and beech mast used as forage for pigs.
- 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.
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