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metage|ˈmiːtɪdʒ|
Also 6 Sc. mettage, mettege, 7 meatage.
[f. mete v. + -age.]
1. The action of measuring officially the content or weight of a load of grain, coal, etc.
15..Aberd. Reg. XXIV. (Jam.), The mettege of colis, salt, lym, corne, fruit, and sic mensturable [sic] gudis. 1576Reg. Privy Council Scot. II. 578 To pay thre penneis for the mettage of every laid [of malt] quhilk sal happin to be presentit. 1636Maldon, Essex, Borough Deeds (Bundle 110) i For the meatage of 10 quarter of barly, 5d. 1753De Foe's Tour Gt. Brit. (ed. 5) II. 137 Acts have very lately passed in relation to the Admeasurement or Metage of Coals for the City of Westminster. 1872Daily News 15 Apr. 5/2 The arrangements with respect to the metage of grain in the port of London.
2. The duty paid for such measuring. (Cf. measurage.)
1527Burgh Rec. Edin. (1869) I. 232 Togidder with the mettage, viz. viijd. for ilk chalder. 1854Fraser's Mag. XLIX. 564 The right of the Corporation to the metage of corn, fruit, and other articles, is recognised and confirmed in the first charter of James I. 1887Times 27 Aug. 11/4 The ordinary fruit metage produced {pstlg}654.
3. attrib.
1546–7Burgh Rec. Stirling (1887) 46 Thai sall pay tharfor iiijd. of the chalder of mettage silveir. 1746Act 19 Geo. II, c. 35 §10 The Amount of the Metage Charge [of Coals]. 1800Colquhoun Comm. Thames xv. 456 On payment of the Metage Duty. 1865Daily Tel. 16 Nov. 8/1 Merchants ..interested in the question of the metage dues. |