Tronage

2 definitions found

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

  Tronage \Tron"age\, n. [From {Trone} a steelyard.]
     A toll or duty paid for weighing wool; also, the act of
     weighing wool. [Obs.] --Nares.
     [1913 Webster]

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



  TRONAGE, Eng. law. A customary duty or toll for weighing wool, so called 
  because it was weighed by a common trona, or beam. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 12.