Meanings
plural pannages
- countableuncountableAcorns and beech mast used as forage for pigs.
- countableuncountableFeeding of pigs on acorns and beech mast in the woods.
- countableuncountableThe right to feed pigs in this manner.
- countablehistoricaluncountableA tax formerly paid for the privilege of feeding swine in the woods.
1 more example
There is there a certain wood called Heton-woode in oaks and the like, in which the tenants of Heton, who hold by charter in fee, have house-bote and hay-bote, of the delivery of the lord; by which that wood is wasted [or much destroyed, destruitur], and on that account does not grow again as much in yearly value, in wood, pannage, or other issues of a wood.
1861, (Please provide the book title or journal name)
Origin
- Old Frenchpasnage
- Englishpannage
Borrowed into Middle English from Old French pasnage (modern French panage), from Late Latin pasnadium, pastinaticum, from pastionare (“to feed on mast, as swine”), from Latin pastio (“a pasturing, grazing”). See pastor.
More words from Old French
Full word history & related roots →Translations
French panage, panage
- panageright to feed pigs, tax
- panagefeeding season for pigs on acorns and beech nuts
Latin pasnagium, pasnadium
- pasnagiumright to feed pigs, tax
- pasnadiumright to feed pigs, tax
- pastinaticumright to feed pigs, tax
- pasnagiumfeeding season for pigs on acorns and beech nuts
- pasnadiumfeeding season for pigs on acorns and beech nuts
- pastinaticumfeeding season for pigs on acorns and beech nuts
Spanish montanera
- montanerafeeding season for pigs on acorns and beech nuts
Welsh mesfraint
- mesfraintright to feed pigs, tax
Cite this entry
pannage. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pannage
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