† ˈtrewage, ˈtruage Obs.
Forms: 3–6 truage, treuage, 4 truwage, 4–5 trowage, 4–6 trewage, 4–7 trouage, 5 triwage, trywage.
[a. OF. treuage (12th c. in Godef.) tribute, f. OF. trëud, trëu (Roland, 11th c.):—L. tribūt-um tribute + -age.]
Tribute.
| c 1275 Lay. 7189 Romleode Com to þissere þeode, And setten truage in þisse lond [c 1205 and sette ȝeld a þisse londe]. Ibid. 25044 Nou axeþ þorh cunde truage of þis londe. c 1330 R. Brunne Chron. (1810) 7 Grete treuage þei toke of þis lond here. c 1400 tr. Secreta Secret., Gov. Lordsh. 57 Þerfore trowages and þe kynges rentys encresys. c 1440 Generydes 1792 Defende your lande that it pay noo trewage. 1525 Ld. Berners Froiss. II. xl. 125 When he hath wonne a countrey..he desyreth nothynge but truage. 1530 Palsgr. 283/1 Truage, trybute, treuaige. 1593 Nashe Christ's T. (1613) 104 Our God..asketh no other treuage at our handes for giuing, but asking and thanksgiuing. 1661 Morgan Sph. Gentry ii. viii. 102 At Rome hastily will I be: not to give you Truage but to have Truage of you. |
b. Toll, custom; payment for some privilege.
| c 1380 Sir Ferumb. 1731 ‘Ȝe mote furst’, quaþ þe Sarazyn, ‘syþþe ȝe þyder fondeþ, For þe truwage make fyn þat to þis brigge longeþ’. 14.. Cov. Corp. Christi Pl. i. 524 Nor also aleond stranger throȝ my realme pas, But the[y] for there truage do pay markis fyve. 1596 Warner Alb. Eng. x. lx, For their Charters did they offer..to undergo all Truage, Taxe and Charge. 1657 Howell Londinop. 49 Wooll Key, where was used to be the Trouage of Woolls. |
¶ Misused for ‘homage’.
| 1592 Nashe P. Penilesse (ed. 2) 31 As he should stoop to doo him truage, he might seaze vpon his throat and stifle him. |
Hence † ˈtrewager Obs., one subject to tribute, a tributary. (Cf. homager.)
| c 1330 R. Brunne Chron. (1810) 45 Þe folk wild not suffre to be treuwageres. |