stackage

English

Etymology

From stack +‎ -age.

Noun

stackage (usually uncountable, plural stackages)

1. Hay, grain, etc. in stacks; things stacked.
2. A tax on things stacked.
   • 1577, Raphaell Holinshed, The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume I, London: […] [Henry Bynneman] for Iohn Harrison, →OCLC:

     His Prædia in like maner were tributes, tolles, portage, bankage, stackage, coinage, profits by saltpits, milles , water-courses […]

References

• “stackage”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.