tallage

From French taillage, from tailler (“to cut”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈtælɪd͡ʒ/

tallage (countable and uncountable, plural tallages)

1. An impost.
2. (UK, law, obsolete or historical) A certain rate or tax paid by barons, knights, and inferior tenants toward the public expenses.
   • 1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:

     The land tax, in its modern shape, has superseded all the former methods of rating either property, or persons in respect of their property, whether by tenths or fifteenths, subsidies on land, hidages, scutages, or tallages

• talliage, tailage, taillage

tallage (third-person singular simple present tallages, present participle tallaging, simple past and past participle tallaged)

1. To lay an impost upon.
2. To cause to pay tallage.

• tallageable

• Latgale, gallate