prisage

English

Etymology

From Old French prisage (“a praising, valuing, taxing”) (compare Latin prisagium (“prisage”)) or from French prise (“a taking, capture, prize”). See prize.

Noun

prisage (countable and uncountable, plural prisages)

  1. (law, Britain, obsolete) A right belonging to the crown of England, of taking two tuns of wine from every ship importing twenty tuns or more: one before and one behind the mast.
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  2. (obsolete) The share of merchandise taken as lawful prize at sea which belongs to the king or admiral.

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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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 prisage in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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