Definitions for butlerage

butlerage but·ler·age

Spelling: [buht-ler-ij]
IPA: /ˈbʌt lər ɪdʒ/

Butlerage is a 9 letter English word.

You can make 449 anagrams from letters in butlerage (abeeglrtu).

Definitions for butlerage

noun

  1. the privilege allowed the king's butler to take a certain quantity of every cask of wine imported by an alien.

Origin of butlerage

First recorded in 1485-95; butler + -age

Examples for butlerage

There is also another antient hereditary duty belonging to the crown, called the prisage or butlerage of wines.

butlerage ceased to be levied in 1809, by the Customs Consolidation Act of that year.

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