Butlerage

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Butlerage \But"ler*age\, n. (O. Eng. Law)
     A duty of two shillings on every tun of wine imported into
     England by merchant strangers; -- so called because paid to
     the king's butler for the king. --Blackstone.
     [1913 Webster]