faldage

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English

Etymology

From Latin faldagium, from Old English fald (whence English fold). Compare foldage.

Noun

faldage (countable and uncountable, plural faldages)

  1. (law, Norfolk, Suffolk, obsolete) A privilege of setting up, and moving about, folds for sheep, in any fields within manors, in order to manure them; often reserved to himself by the lord of the manor.
    • 1868, Charles Isaac Elton, A Treatise on Commons and Wastelands:
      It was decided , in a case where the lord of a manor had liberty of faldage and a fold-course for 300 sheep over certain closes within the manor, that the lessee of these rights could not feed his own sheep over these closes
  2. (law, obsolete) A fee paid for exemption from this.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 faldage”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)