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

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.

"Pray, young gentleman," said the black-letter lawyer, "do you think herbage and pannage rateable to the poor's rate?"

From A Book About Lawyers by Jeaffreson, John Cordy

These Verderers Courts have been held since Norman days and the old French terms "pannage," "turbary" and so on, are still used.

From Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter by Holmes, Edric