pannage
Britishnoun
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pasturage for pigs, esp in a forest
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the right to pasture pigs in a forest
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payment for this
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acorns, beech mast, etc, on which pigs feed
Etymology
Origin of pannage
C13: from Old French pasnage, ultimately from Latin pastion-, pastiō feeding, from pascere to feed
Example Sentences
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I learned, via a short stroll from the history of warrens, about pannage, the practice of releasing domestic pigs into a forest.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 4, 2015
Their rights of usufruct, grazing, pannage, estovers, turbary and piscary survived for many centuries before being terminated: first informally, later in wholesale acts of enclosure.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 31, 2011
It was rated at 1,080 acres, and possessed a church, a mill worth a sovereign, a river containing 1,620 eels, and pannage for 80 hogs.
From Highways and Byways in Sussex by Frederick Landseer Maur Griggs
We know nothing more of Ashford, which, as I have said, till late in the Middle Age consisted of a church and two mills and a dene for the pannage of hogs in the Weald.
From England of My Heart : Spring by Edward Hutton
A thriving village or township would begin to encroach on the common land of its weaker neighbours, would try to seize some of its rights of pannage in the forest, or fishing in the stream.
From Henry the Second by Mrs. J. R. Green
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