Definition of "tallage"

tallage

/ˈtælɪd͡ʒ/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural tallages
1. An impost.
2. (UK, law, obsolete or historical) A certain rate or tax paid by barons, knights, and inferior tenants toward the public expenses.
  Quotations
  The land tax, in its modern shape, has superseded all the former methods of rating either property, or persons in respect of their property, whether by tenths or fifteenths, subsidies on land, hidages, scutages, or tallages
  1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press
verb
third-person singular simple present tallages, present participle tallaging, simple past and past participle tallaged
1. To lay an impost upon.
2. To cause to pay tallage.