Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun An occasional tax levied by the Anglo-Norman kings on crown lands and royal towns.
  • transitive verb To levy a tax on.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • etc. See tailage, etc.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (O. Eng. Law) A certain rate or tax paid by barons, knights, and inferior tenants, toward the public expenses.
  • transitive verb To lay an impost upon; to cause to pay tallage.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun An impost.
  • noun UK, law, obsolete A certain rate or tax paid by barons, knights, and inferior tenants toward the public expenses.
  • verb To lay an impost upon.
  • verb To cause to pay tallage.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English taillage, from Old French, from taillier, to cut, tax; see tailor.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

French taillage.

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  • "...also his lawyer up from Philadelphia with his bulging briefcase, the sheer tax-maneuvering his wife's behaviour had now got him into! his own cursing yeoman forebears hadn't been amerced with a blacker set of reliefs and merchets, church-scot and plough-arms and smoke-farthings and hearthpenny on Holy Thursday, and nowadays who could he tallage in return?"

    - W.M. Spackman, An Armful of Warm Girl

    December 22, 2011