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单词 pontage
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pontagen.

Brit. /ˈpɒntɪdʒ/, U.S. /ˈpɑn(t)ɪdʒ/
Forms: Middle English pountage, Middle English– pontage.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French pontage.
Etymology: < Anglo-Norman pontage, pountage and Middle French pontage (1269 in Old French; French pontage ) < post-classical Latin pontaticum , pontagium bridge-toll (8th cent.; frequently from 12th cent. in British sources) < classical Latin pont- , pōns bridge (see pons n.) + post-classical Latin -aticum -age suffix.
Now historical.
A toll for the use of a bridge; a tax paid for the maintenance and repair of a bridge or bridges. free pontage n. Obsolete rare exemption from a toll imposed for the use of a bridge.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > dues or tolls for upkeep or maintenance > [noun]
bridge-boteOE
bridge silverc1254
parkbotea1315
fosse-silver?a1325
pontagea1325
murage1424
pavagec1450
bridge money1482
fox-hen1528
jail money1600
water-corn1600
beaconage1607
castle-bote1628
burgh-bote1647
barbicanage1691
highway rate1697
fossage1757
mint duties1782
society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > toll for passing through > [noun] > for passage over a bridge
pontagea1325
society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > toll for passing through > [noun] > for passage over a bridge > freedom from
free pontage1695
a1325 Statutes of Realm (2011) vii. 46 Þe lord king grauntez, þat..of..tollage, tronage, passage, pontage..lith fram nou forthward assise of nouele disseisine.
Ordinances Exchequer (?1530) sig. A.vv For euery viewe of customers of Tonnage and pontage and pety custome of London and Brystowe.
a1475 in A. Clark Eng. Reg. Godstow Nunnery (1906) ii. 659 (MED) Henry, kyng of Englond..charged that the mynchons of Godestowe and all ther goodis..shold be quyte fro tol, passage, and pountage.
c1503 tr. Charter of London in R. Arnold Chron. f. vij/2 Yt they..be quyt for euer of pauage pontage and murage by al our reame.
1597–8 Act 39 Eliz. c. 34 §6 Pontage shall be payde..at the sayde Brydge..for every..Wayne, Carre, or Carte..two pence.
1610 W. Folkingham Feudigraphia iii. iv. 70 Immunities and Exemptions from Theolonie, Pontage, Picage, Murage..&c.
1695 W. Kennett Parochial Antiq. ix. 201 All right and title to a new Mill,..with free pontage or passage over the River.
1735 J. Price Some Considerations Stone-bridge Thames 5 A House on each Head of the Bridge, erected to receive the Toll or Pontage.
1858 W. H. Hale Domesday St. Paul's p. lxiii Vicecomites were accustomed to repair the bridge at Cambridge by levying ‘pontage’ or ‘brigbote’.
1895 Glasgow Weekly News 19 Jan. 7/8 Subscriptions so as to have the Leven bridges free from the objectionable pontage.
1930 H. M. Cam Hundred & Hundred Rolls viii. iii. 105 Sixpence a hide was the usual amount levied as pontage.
1999 Oxoniensia 63 60 A few months after receiving royal licence to collect pontage for the repair of the bridge.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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