VividLex

Home / Thesaurus / scavage

Thesaurus: scavage

A toll or duty formerly exacted of merchant strangers by mayors, sheriffs, etc., for goods shown or offered for sale within their precincts.

Full dictionary entry Search Lens associations

Related headwords

dutydefinitionexacteddefinitionformerlydefinitiongoodsdefinitionmayorsdefinitionmerchantdefinitionoffereddefinitionsaledefinitionsheriffsdefinitionshowndefinitionstrangersdefinitiontolldefinitionwithindefinitionprecinctsdefinitiontheirdefinitionscattershotneighborscattingneighborscattyneighborscaturientneighborscaturiginousneighborscaupneighborscaup duckneighborscauperneighborscaupsneighborscaurneighborscavengeneighborscavengedneighborscavengerneighbor

Definitions

  1. n. A toll or duty formerly exacted of merchant strangers by mayors, sheriffs, etc., for goods shown or offered for sale within their precincts.
  2. A toll duty formerly exacted of merchant strangers by mayors, sheriffs, etc., for goods shown or offered for sale within their precincts. Cowell.
  3. A toll duty formerly exacted of merchant strangers by mayors,sheriffs, etc., for goods shown or offered for sale within theirprecincts. Cowell.