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

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

"Pray, young gentleman," said the black-letter lawyer, "do you think herbage and pannage rateable to the poor's rate?"

From A Book About Lawyers by Jeaffreson, John Cordy

Hill one day stopped Scott in the hall, and said, "Pray, young gentleman, do you think herbage and pannage rateable to the poor's rate?"

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 346, August, 1844 by Various