Meaning of prisage | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A right belonging to the crown of England, of taking two tuns of wine from every ship importing twenty tuns or more: one before and one behind the mast.
   UK, countable, obsolete, uncountable
2. The share of merchandise taken as lawful prize at sea which belongs to the king or admiral.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable

Examples

“There is also another very ancient hereditary duty belonging to the crown, called the prisage, or butlerage of wines”

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