Pannage: Definition and part of speech

Pannage

  1. n. A tax paid for the privilege of feeding swine in the woods.
  2. n. The food of swine in the woods, as beechnuts, acorns, etc.; — called also pawns.

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.

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