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noun

Poundage n.

A sum deducted from a pound, or a certain sum paid for each pound; a commission.

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.)

(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.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Poundage" Quotes from Famous Books

... tonnage and poundage which had not been granted by the Parliament, and could lawfully be levied by no other power; he called upon the seaport towns to furnish, and to pay all the cost for three months of, a fleet of armed ships; and he required the people to unite in lending him ...

— A Child's History of England • Charles Dickens

... than twenty; the tax by which they were to be repaid to be levied under grand jury presentments, according to the Poor Law valuation, and in the manner of the poor rate; the occupier paying the whole, but deducting from his landlord one-half the poundage rate of the rent to which he was liable—in short, as under the Poor Law, the occupier was to pay one-half, and the landlord the other. Thus, by this law, the whole expense of supplying food to the people during the remainder of the year 1846, and the entire year of 1847, was made a local charge, ...

— The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) - With Notices Of Earlier Irish Famines • John O'Rourke

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