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单词 canage
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Origin: Either (i) a borrowing from French. Or (ii) a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French canage; Latin canagium.
Etymology: < (i) Anglo-Norman canage (1337 or earlier), or its etymon (ii) post-classical Latin canagium (from 1302 in Scottish sources) < canum , cana ( < Early Irish cán- , cáin cain n.1) + -agium -age suffix.It is unclear whether the following earlier instance of the vernacular form canage in a Latin context should be taken as showing the Scots or the Anglo-Norman word:1357 in D. Macpherson et al. Rotuli Scotiae (1814) I. 804/2 Concessimus etiam præfatis burgensibus & eorum heredibus & successoribus custumam que dicitur canage ac etiam prisonam vocatam la Berfray [etc.] [We also concede to the aforementioned citizens and their heirs and successors the custom that is called canage and also the prison called la Berfray].
Originally and chiefly Scottish. Obsolete (historical in later use).
The payment of cain (see cain n.1); the amount of cain paid.
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c1400 Lawys of Schippis (Bute) in Acts Parl. Scotl. (1844) I. App. v. 725/2 Þar is aucht for a last of wol for canage .xviij. d. qwhar it aucht to be gyfyn as at Berwyk on Twede.
1597 J. Skene De Verborum Significatione Canage of woll or hides is taken for the custome theirof.
1603 Charter of Berwick in J. Fuller Hist. Berwick upon Tweed (1799) App. 21 Mayor Bailiffs and Burgesses..shall be..exonered forever of toll pontage passage marage pannage carnage lastage canage..vinage and of all other sale achate rechate through our whole land.
1888 W. Denton Eng. in 15th Cent. ii. 231 This present was known in the north by the name of canage.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2017; most recently modified version published online September 2021).

canagen.2

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: cane n.1, -age suffix.
Etymology: < cane n.1 + -age suffix, after vintage n.; translating classical Latin virgidēmia harvest of rods, i.e. severe beating (Plautus) < virga rod (see virga n.) + -dēmia (in vindēmia vindemy n.).
Obsolete.
Used humorously for: a harvest of canes (cf. vintage n. 1a).Apparently an isolated use.
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1881 J. H. Hales in Antiquary Nov. 190/1 The general title of the whole series [of Hall's satires] was Virgidemiæ, from Plautus' Virgidemia (a canage), a comical analogue of Vindemia (a vintage).
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2017; most recently modified version published online September 2019).
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