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Poundage
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What's The Definition Of Poundage?
[n] placing private property in the custody of an officer of the law
[n] weight expressed in pounds [n] a fee charged for the recovery of impounded animals [n] a charge based on weight measured in pounds Synonyms | Synonyms for Poundage: impounding | impoundment | internment Related Terms | Find terms related to Poundage: accommodation | avoirdupois | beef | beefiness | burden | capacity | carriage | cartage | content | cordage | deadweight | drayage | expressage | fatness | freight | freightage | gravity | gross weight | haulage | heaviness | heft | heftiness | limit | liveweight | measure | neat weight | net | net weight | overbalance | overweight | ponderability | ponderosity | ponderousness | quantity | room | space | stowage | tonnage | underweight | volume | weight | weightiness See Also | charge | fee | seizure | weight Poundage In Webster's Dictionary \Pound"age\, n.
1. A sum deducted from a pound, or a certain sum paid for
each pound; a commission.
2. A subsidy of twelve pence in the pound, formerly granted
to the crown on all goods exported or imported, and if by
aliens, more. [Eng.] --Blackstone.
3. (Law) The sum allowed to a sheriff or other officer upon
the amount realized by an execution; -- estimated in
England, and formerly in the United States, at so much of
the pound. --Burrill. Bouvier.
\Pound"age\, v. t. To collect, as poundage; to assess, or rate, by poundage. [R.] \Pound"age\, n. [See 3d {Pound}.] 1. Confinement of cattle, or other animals, in a public pound. 2. A charge paid for the release of impounded cattle. |
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