stallage
(ˈstɔːlɪdʒ)
Also 4 stalage, 6 stalege.
[ad. Anglo-L. stallagium, AF. estalage (mod.F. étalage), f. estal stall n.1 In sense 3 formed on stall n.1 + -age.]
1. A tax or toll levied for the liberty of erecting a stall in a fair or market; also attrib., as stallage rent.
| [c 1250 Faringdon Acc. (MS. Balow 49 [2] lf. 29), Reddit compotum..de vj s. viij d. de tolneto stallagiorum.] |
| 1387 Trevisa Higden (Rolls) II. 97 Stalage, custom for stondynge in stretes in feyre tyme. c 1450 Godstow Reg. 665 And they shold be quyte þurgh all Ingelond by watir fro tol and passage and pountage and stallage and lastage and of all other customs. 1516 Churchw. Acc. St. Marg., Westm. (Nichols 1797) 8 Paid..for 24 ton of barnestone, with the pylage ankarage stallage custom and water carriage. 1705 Hearne Collect. (O.H.S.) I. 28 Ye Toll and Stallage of Swyndon Market. 1763 in Picton L'pool Munic. Rec. (1886) II. 232 Rents, Dues and Stallage..And that all persons erecting stalls..do pay the customary stallage rents to the Corporation. 1774 Ibid. 227 The stallage Rents and other reversionary interest. 1833 Boston (Linc.) Herald 5 Feb. 4/2 The..right of the Lessee of the Corporation of this Borough, to his charge of one penny per foot for Stallage, upon all persons except freemen occupying ground with stalls in the Market-place..is at length decided. |
2. [
Cf. Du. stellazje, scaffold, stage.]
† a. A stand, stage.
Obs. rare.
b. dial. A stand or support for a cask. (
Cf. stall n.1 7,
stillage.)
| c 1500 Melusine xvii. 54 And thenne the spouse & many other ladyes were sett vpon the scaffold or stalage. 1541 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxford (1880) 164 The howses, shoppys, stallys, stallagis, and standyngs now made..for the said fayre. 1838 Holloway Prov. Dict., Stallage, a wooden trough, on which casks are placed, for the purpose of letting beer work. 1875 W. D. Parish Sussex Gloss. Stalder, the stool on which casks are placed in a cellar. Stallage. (Same as Stalder.) |
3. Accommodation for stalling (horses).
rare—1.
| 1861 Wynter Soc. Bees 216 There are two of these [stables], containing stallage for 130 horses. |