Poundage

·noun A charge paid for the release of impounded cattle.

II. Poundage ·vt To collect, as poundage; to assess, or rate, by poundage.

III. Poundage ·noun Confinement of cattle, or other animals, in a public pound.

IV. Poundage ·noun A sum deducted from a pound, or a certain sum paid for each pound; a commission.

V. Poundage ·noun A subsidy of twelve pence in the pound, formerly granted to the crown on all goods exported or imported, and if by aliens, more.

VI. Poundage ·noun The sum allowed to a sheriff or other officer upon the amount realized by an execution;

— estimated in England, and formerly in the United States, at so much of the pound.