faldageとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

faldage (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 faldages)

1. (law, Norfolk, Suffolk, obsolete) A privilege of setting up, and moving about, folds for sheep, in any fields within manors, in order to manure them; often reserved to himself by the lord of the manor.
   • 1868, Charles Isaac Elton, A Treatise on Commons and Wastelands:

     It was decided , in a case where the lord of a manor had liberty of faldage and a fold-course for 300 sheep over certain closes within the manor, that the lessee of these rights could not feed his own sheep over these closes

2. (law, obsolete) A fee paid for exemption from this.