rerage
English
Etymology
Either aphetic form of arrearage; or directly from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Late Latin reragium or its likely source, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Anglo-Norman arerage.
Noun
rerage (plural rerages)
- (obsolete) Money owed; overdue payment. [14th-17th c.]
- c. 1541, The Chronicle of Calais, London 1846:
- Also the duke of Burbone shall have his duchye and seniories and lordships agayne as he had before, and the kynge shall gyve to the duke all his rerages and customes that is growne or rune unto hym [...].
- c. 1541, The Chronicle of Calais, London 1846:
- (obsolete) The state of being in debt. [15th-17th c.]