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Webster 1913 Edition

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Noun.

[LL.

pontagium

, from L.

pons

pontis

, a bridge: cf. F.

pontage

(O. Eng. Law)

A duty or tax paid for repairing bridges.

Ayliffe.

Noun.

[L. pons, pontis, a bridge.]

A duty paid for repairing bridges.

pontage ‎(plural pontages)

(Britain, law, obsolete) A duty or tax paid for repairing bridges.
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pontage m ‎(plural pontages)

(medicine) bypass (an alternative passage created to divert a bodily fluid around a damaged organ)
bridge-building