alnage

English

WOTD – 11 October 2015

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French alnage, aulnage, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French aunage, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French alne (“ell”), of Germanic origin: compare Old High German elina, Gothic 𐌰𐌻𐌴𐌹𐌽𐌰 (aleina, “cubit”). See ell.

Noun

alnage (plural alnages)

1. Measurement (of cloth) by the ell.
   • 1896, Edwin Arlington Robinson, The Clerks

     Poets and kings are but the clerks of Time,

     Tiering the same dull webs of discontent,

     Clipping the same sad alnage of the years.

2. A duty paid for such measurement.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “alnage”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Angela, Galena, anlage, galena, lagena