Pound"age (?), n.
1.
A sum deducted from a pound, or a certain sum paid for each pound; a commission.
2.
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.]
Blackstone.
3. 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.
Burrill. Bouvier.
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Pound"age, v. t.
To collect, as poundage; to assess, or rate, by poundage.
[R.]
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Pound"age, n. [See 3d Pound.]
1.
Confinement of cattle, or other animals, in a public pound.
2.
A charge paid for the release of impounded cattle.
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