Meaning of alnage | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Measurement (of cloth) by the ell, specifically, official inspection and measurement of woollen cloth, and attestation of its value by the affixing of a lead seal, as was once required by British law.
   historical
2. A duty paid for such measurement.
   historical

Examples

“Poets and kings are but the clerks of Time, Tiering the same dull webs of discontent, Clipping the same sad alnage of the years.”

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