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scavage


  1  definition  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Scavage  \Scav"age\  (?;  48),  n.  [LL.  scavagium  fr  AS 
  sce['a]wian  to  look  at  to  inspect.  See  {Show}.]  (O.  Eng. 
  Law) 
  A  toll  or  duty  formerly  exacted  of  merchant  strangers  by 
  mayors,  sheriffs,  etc.,  for  goods  shown  or  offered  for  sale 
  within  their  precincts.  --Cowell.