pannage

British  

/ ˈpænɪdʒ /

noun

1. pasturage for pigs, esp in a forest

2. the right to pasture pigs in a forest

3. payment for this

4. acorns, beech mast, etc, on which pigs feed

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Etymology

Origin of pannage

C13: from Old French pasnage, ultimately from Latin pastion-, pastiō feeding, from pascere to feed

Example Sentences

I learned, via a short stroll from the history of warrens, about pannage, the practice of releasing domestic pigs into a forest.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 4, 2015

Their rights of usufruct, grazing, pannage, estovers, turbary and piscary survived for many centuries before being terminated: first informally, later in wholesale acts of enclosure.

From The Guardian • Jan. 31, 2011

It was rated at 1,080 acres, and possessed a church, a mill worth a sovereign, a river containing 1,620 eels, and pannage for 80 hogs.

From Highways and Byways in Sussex by Griggs, Frederick Landseer Maur

The men of Awre were allowed, by custom, pasturage in the Forest; those of Rodley, estover, dead and dry wood, with pannage and food for cattle as well.

From The Forest of Dean An Historical and Descriptive Account by Nicholls, H. G. (Henry George)

A thriving village or township would begin to encroach on the common land of its weaker neighbours, would try to seize some of its rights of pannage in the forest, or fishing in the stream.

From Henry the Second by Green, Mrs. J. R.