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Webster 1913 Edition

Scavage

Scav′age

(?; 48)
,
Noun.
[LL.
scavagium
, fr. AS.
sceáwian
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.

Webster 1828 Edition

Scavage

SCAV'AGE

,
Noun.
In ancient customs, a toll or duty exacted of merchant-strangers by mayors, sheriffs, &c. for goods shown or offered for sale within their precincts.

Definition 2024

scavage

scavage

English

Noun

scavage ‎(plural scavages)

  1. (historical) A toll or duty anciently exacted from merchant strangers by mayors, sheriffs, etc. for goods offered for sale within their precincts.

Etymology 2

Back-formation from scavager.

Verb

scavage ‎(third-person singular simple present scavages, present participle scavaging, simple past and past participle scavaged)

  1. To act as a scavenger, to scavenge.

Etymology

From Middle English scavage, schevage, schewage, from Old French *scavage, escavage, escauwage, alteration of earlier escauvinghe ‎(“scavage”), from Middle English shewing, schewing ‎(“inspection, examination, show”), from Old English scēawung ‎(“a looking at, seeing, contemplation, consideration, respect, regard, reconnoitering, surveying, inspection, examination, scrutiny, a spectacle, show, appearance, pretence, a showing, exhibiting, manifestation, toll on exposure of goods”), equivalent to show +‎ -ing.

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