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Definition: peage
Paage
\Pa"age\ (p[=a]"[asl]j; 48), n. [OF. paage, paiage, F.
p['e]age, fr. (assumed) LL. pedaticum, fr. L. pes, pedis,
foot. See
Pedage,
Pedal.] (O. Eng. Law)
A toll for passage over another person's grounds. [Written
also
peage and
pedage.] --Burke.
[1913 Webster]
Peag
\Peag\, n. [Written also
peage,
peak,
peeke.] [Prob.
of North American Indian origin, by shortening of wampumpeag.
--RHUD.]
A kind of aboriginal shell money, or wampum, of the Atlantic
coast of the United States; -- originally applied only to
polished white cylindrical beads. See also
wampum.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]