pannage

British  

/ ˈpænɪdʒ /

noun

1. pasturage for pigs, esp in a forest

2. the right to pasture pigs in a forest

3. payment for this

4. acorns, beech mast, etc, on which pigs feed

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Etymology

Origin of pannage

C13: from Old French pasnage, ultimately from Latin pastion-, pastiō feeding, from pascere to feed

Example Sentences

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

The creature, partly it may be from familiarity, jumps up against the iron palisade which separates the visitor from its walk, but a poor pannage as a substitute for its African home.

From Heads and Tales : or, Anecdotes and Stories of Quadrupeds and Other Beasts, Chiefly Connected with Incidents in the Histories of More or Less Distinguished Men. by White, Adam

These Verderers Courts have been held since Norman days and the old French terms "pannage," "turbary" and so on, are still used.

From Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter by Holmes, Edric

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 Griggs, Frederick Landseer Maur