tallage

• POS: Noun, Verb (transitive)
• HYPHEN: tal=lage

CIDE DICTIONARY

tallage, n. [F. taillage. See Taille, and cf. Tailage.].

 A certain rate or tax paid by barons, knights, and inferior tenants, toward the public expenses.  [1913 Webster]
" When paid out of knight's fees, it was called scutage; when by cities and burghs, tallage; when upon lands not held by military tenure, hidage."  Blackstone.  [1913 Webster]

tallage, v. t. 

 To lay an impost upon; to cause to pay tallage.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

tallage, n. hist.
1 a form of taxation on towns etc., abolished in the 14th c.
2 a tax on feudal dependants etc.

Etymology

ME f. OF taillage f. tailler cut: see TAIL(2)

ROGET THESAURUS

tallage

Price

N price, amount, cost, expense, prime cost, charge, figure, demand, damage, fare, hire, wages, value, dues, duty, toll, tax, impost, cess, sess, tallage, levy, abkari, capitation tax, poll tax, doomage, likin, gabel, gabelle, gavel, octroi, custom, excise, assessment, benevolence, tithe, tenths, exactment, ransom, salvage, tariff, brokerage, wharfage, freightage, bill, shot, priced, to the tune of, ad valorem, dutiable, mercenary, venal, no penny no paternoster, point d'argent point de Suisse, no longer pipe no longer dance, no song no supper, if you dance you have to pay the piper, you get what you pay for, there's no such thing as a free lunch, one may have it for, a bon marche.