Poundage

6 definitions found

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

  Poundage \Pound"age\, n. [See 3d {Pound}.]
     1. Confinement of cattle, or other animals, in a public
        pound.
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     2. A charge paid for the release of impounded cattle.


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

  Poundage \Pound"age\, n.
     1. A sum deducted from a pound, or a certain sum paid for
        each pound; a commission.
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     2. A subsidy of twelve pence in the pound, formerly granted
        to the crown on all goods exported or imported, and if by
        aliens, more. [Eng.] --Blackstone.
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     3. (Law) The sum allowed to a sheriff or other officer upon
        the amount realized by an execution; -- estimated in
        England, and formerly in the United States, at so much of
        the pound. --Burrill. Bouvier.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Poundage \Pound"age\, v. t.
     To collect, as poundage; to assess, or rate, by poundage.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  poundage
       n 1: a charge based on weight measured in pounds
       2: a fee charged for the recovery of impounded animals
       3: weight expressed in pounds
       4: placing private property in the custody of an officer of the
          law [syn: {impoundment}, {impounding}, {internment}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  42 Moby Thesaurus words for "poundage":
     accommodation, avoirdupois, beef, beefiness, burden, capacity,
     carriage, cartage, content, cordage, deadweight, drayage,
     expressage, fatness, freight, freightage, gravity, gross weight,
     haulage, heaviness, heft, heftiness, limit, liveweight, measure,
     neat weight, net, net weight, overbalance, overweight,
     ponderability, ponderosity, ponderousness, quantity, room, space,
     stowage, tonnage, underweight, volume, weight, weightiness
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  POUNDAGE, practice. The amount allowed to the sheriff, or other officer, for 
  commissions on, the money made by virtue of an execution. This allowance 
  varies in different states, and to different officers.