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Scavage
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Scavage, n. [LL. scavagium, fr. AS. sceáwian to look at, to inspect. See Show.].
A toll or duty formerly exacted of merchant strangers by mayors, sheriffs, etc., for goods shown or offered for sale within their precincts. Cowell. [1913 Webster]
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