Hypertext Webster Gateway: "scavage"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Scavage \Scav"age\ (?; 48), n. [LL. scavagium, fr. AS.
sce['a]wian to look at, to inspect. See {Show}.] (O. Eng.
Law)
A toll or duty formerly exacted of merchant strangers by
mayors, sheriffs, etc., for goods shown or offered for sale
within their precincts. --Cowell.


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