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Pronunciation : Tal"lage, Tal"li*age
Part of Speech : n.
Etymology : [F. taillage. See Taille, and cf. Tailage.] (O. Eng. Law)
Definition : Defn: A certain rate or tax paid by barons, knights, and inferior tenants, toward the public expenses. [Written also tailage, taillage.]

Note: When paid out of knight's fees, it was called scutage; when by cities and burghs, tallage; when upon lands not held by military tenure, hidage. Blackstone.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Tal"lage
Part of Speech : v.
Definition : Defn: To lay an impost upon; to cause to pay tallage.

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Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913