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pickage, piccage|ˈpɪkɪdʒ|
Forms: 4 pyk-, 5 pyck-, 7–8 pic-, 7– pick-, piccage.
[f. pick v.1 + -age. In AF. picage (Calais 1376), med.(Anglo-)L. picāgium (Du Cange), f. F. piquer: cf. pick v.1]
A toll paid for breaking the ground in setting up booths, stalls, tents, etc. at fairs.
1364in Cal. Letters City Lond. (1885) 105 [They are and ought to be quit of] pykage. [1376Rolls of Parlt. II. 359/1 (Reply to Burgesses of Calais) Lastallage..et auxint le picage en la Marche.] c1440Jacob's Well 29 To paye toll, pyckage, murage, or grondage. 1610W. Folkingham Art of Survey iii. iv. 70 Immunities and Exemptions from..Pontage, Picage, Murage. 1627F. Little Mon. Chr. Munif. (1871) 31 The pickage, stallage and tolls usually paid by buyers and sellers to the lord of the fair. 1778Eng. Gazetteer (ed. 2) s.v. Hitchin, Paying piccage and stallage to the lordship of the manor. 1864Leeds Mercury 30 May, On Saturday, the pickage and stallage of the Wigan market were let by tender for twelve months, for the sum of {pstlg}560. 1885Law Rep. 14 Q. Bench Div. 246 All tolls, dues, piccage, stallage, and other profits..to such market..belonging. |