Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A toll or duty payable for the liberty of passing over the soil or territory of another.
- noun Money paid toward paving streets or highways.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare See
paviage .
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- noun Alternative form of
paviage .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a tax toward paving streets
- noun the act of applying paving materials to an area
Etymologies
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Examples
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The point therefore stands that the pavage is one of those elements of early transport history that strongly suggests top-down directed state provision is not the only option.
Why lefty types should support privatised roads Alix Mortimer 2009
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My point in mentioning the pavage was precisely that it was one of the substitutes for what are now the functions of local government.
Why lefty types should support privatised roads Alix Mortimer 2009
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At first sight pavage may not appear an exact analogy to the turnpike system, which relied on voluntary private investment.
Why lefty types should support privatised roads Alix Mortimer 2009
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For three days, the three busiest of the year, when we might do well out of tolls on carts and pack-horses and man-loads passing through the town to reach the fair, we must levy no charges, neither murage nor pavage.
St. Peter's Fair Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1981
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For three days, the three busiest of the year, when we might do well out of tolls on carts and pack-horses and man-loads passing through the town to reach the fair, we must levy no charges, neither murage nor pavage.
St. Peter's Fair Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1981
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"All we ask is that you will hold back a tithe of the dues you pay to the abbey, and pay them instead to the town for murage and pavage.
St. Peter's Fair Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1981
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"All we ask is that you will hold back a tithe of the dues you pay to the abbey, and pay them instead to the town for murage and pavage.
St. Peter's Fair Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1981
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