pannage

Meaning

Noun

• Acorns and beech mast used as forage for pigs.
• Feeding of pigs on acorns and beech mast in the woods.
• The right to so feed pigs.
• A tax formerly paid for the privilege of feeding swine in the woods.

Origin

• Borrowed into Middle English from Old French pasnage (modern French panage), from Late Latin pasnadium, pastinaticum, from pastionare, from Latin pastio. See pastor.