Butlerage
- n. A duty of two shillings on every tun of wine imported into England by merchant strangers; — so called because paid to the king’s butler for the king.
The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.