pontage

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noun

A duty or tax paid for repairing bridges.

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Meanings

nounpontage (countable and uncountable, plural pontages)

plural pontages

  1. UKcountableobsoleteuncountablelawA duty or tax paid for repairing bridges.

    They pay no Toll for Goods which they have in Right of the Church , and were formerly by the common Law discharg'd from Pontage and Murage

    1726, John Ayliffe, Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani: Or, A Commentary, by Way of Supplement to the Canons and Constitutions of the Church of England. […], London: […] D. Leach, and sold by John Walthoe […], →OCLC

Origin

From Latin pons, pontis (“a bridge”): compare French pontage.

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APA

pontage. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pontage

MLA

“pontage.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pontage. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “pontage,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pontage.

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