pannage.
Acorns and beech mast used as forage for pigs.
Meaning & usage
Acorns and beech mast used as forage for pigs.
Feeding of pigs on acorns and beech mast in the woods.
The right to feed pigs in this manner.
A tax formerly paid for the privilege of feeding swine in the woods.
Where this word comes from
Borrowed into Middle English from Old French pasnage (modern French panage), from Late Latin pasnadium, pastinaticum, from pastionare (“to feed on mast, as swine”), from Latin pastio (“a pasturing, grazing”). See pastor.
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