† shewagen.
Obsolete. rare.
An etymologizing alteration of scavage n., due to the lawyers of the 15–16th centuries.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > duty on goods > [noun] > on goods brought into a town
skewing1312
scavage1444
shewage1500
octroi1714
1500 in I. S. Leadam Select Cases Star Chamber (1903) I. 73 All maner of toll & Shewage oderwise called Skawage amonges oder thynges.
1503–4 Act 19 Hen. VII c. 8 Dyvers Meires..have..taken of theym a certeyn Costome called Skavage, oderwyse called Shewage.
1641 Termes de la Ley (1659) 245 b Scauage or shewage.
1800 P. Colquhoun Treat. Commerce & Police R. Thames xi. 332 Of Scavage (i.e. Shewage or Surveying) of certain Goods imported by Foreign Merchants.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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