stallage

English

Etymology

From stall +‎ -age? Compare Old French estallange, of German origin.

Noun

stallage (countable and uncountable, plural stallages)

1. (obsolete) The erection and use of a stall at a fair or market.
2. (obsolete) The dues levied for the erection and use of a stall at a fair or market.
   • 1899, Joseph Gerald Pease, Herbert Chitty, A treatise on the law of markets and fairs with the principal statutes relating thereto, Knight and Co., page 63:

     Stallage and the like payments are made in respect of some user of the soil beyond the mere entry into the market; for no one has a right to erect a stall or appropriate part of the market place as a standing without making a satisfaction for it to the owner of the soil […]

3. (obsolete) dung of cattle or horses, mixed with straw

Anagrams

• galletas, gallates, Steagall, tallages