mastage Obs. exc. Hist.
(ˈmɑːstɪdʒ, -æ-)
[f. mast n.2 or v.2 + -age.]
The fruit of forest-trees collectively: = mast n.2 1. Also, the right of feeding animals on mast.
| 1610 W. Folkingham Art of Survey i. vi. 13 What Trees, Plants, Shrubs: what Fruitage, Mastage, Gummage. 1762 tr. Busching's Syst. Geog. VI. 287 The mastage..from the oaks and beech. 1794 Pringle Agric. Surv. Westmorland 51 Regulations..full of the mention of forests, and chaces,..and mastage, and pannage, and vert. 1881 Cornh. Mag. XLIV. 342 The English..divided out the land..with..right of..mastage for so many swine in the woodlands. |