tallage

plural tallages · alternative taliage · alternative talliage · alternative tailage · alternative taillage

1. countableuncountableAn impost.

   ‘For what cess or tallage comes these bandogs to Fitz Peascod Castle?’

   1936, Norman Lindsay, The Flyaway Highway, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 93

2. UKcountablehistoricalobsoleteuncountablelawA certain rate or tax paid by barons, knights, and inferior tenants toward the public expenses.

   The land tax, in its modern shape, has superseded all the former methods of rating either property, or persons in respect of their property, whether by tenths or fifteenths, subsidies on land, hidages, scutages, or tallages

   1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC

present singular third person tallages · participle present tallaging · participle past tallaged · past tallaged

1. To lay an impost upon.
2. To cause to pay tallage.