Also 4 stalage, 6 stallege. [ad. Anglo-L. stallagium, AF. estalage (mod.F. étalage), f. estal STALL sb.1 In sense 3 formed on STALL sb.1 + -AGE.]
1. A tax or toll levied for the liberty of erecting a stall in a fair or market; also attrib., as stallage rent.
[c. 1250. Faringdon Acc. (MS. Balow 49 [2] lf. 29). Reddit compotum … de vj s. viij d. de tolneto stallagiorum.]
1387. Trevisa, Higden (Rolls), II. 97. Stalage, custom for stondynge in stretes in feyre tyme.
c. 1450. Godstow Reg., 665. And they shold be quyte þurgh all Ingelond by watir fro tol and passage and pountage and stallage and lastage and of all other customs.
1516. Churcw. Acc. St. Marg., Westm. (Nichols, 1797), 8. Paid … for 24 ton of barnestone, with the pylage ankarage stallage custom and water carriage.
1705. Hearne, Collect. (O.H.S.), I. 28. Ye Toll and Stallage of Swyndon Market.
1763. in Picton, L’pool Munic. Rec. (1886), II. 232. Rents, Dues and Stallage … And that all persons erecting stalls … do pay the customary stallage rents to the Corporation. Ibid. (1774), 227. The stallage Rents and other reversionary interest.
1833. Boston (Linc.) Herald, 5 Feb., 4/2. The … right of the Lessee of the Corporation of this Borough, to his charge of one penny per foot for Stallage, upon all persons except freemen occupying ground with stalls in the Market-place … is at length decided.
2. [Cf. Du. stellazje, scaffold, stage.] † a. A stand, stage. Obs. rare. b. dial. A stand or support for a cask. (Cf. STALL sb.1 7, STILLAGE.)
c. 1500. Melusine, xvii. 54. And thenne the spouse & many other ladyes were sett vpon the scaffold or stalage.
1541. in W. H. Turner, Select. Rec. Oxford (1880), 164. The howses, shoppys, stallys, stallagis, and standyngs now made … for the said fayre.
1838. Holloway, Prov. Dict., Stallage, a wooden trough, on which casks are placed, for the purpose of letting beer work.
1875. W. D. Parish, Sussex Gloss., Stalder.… The stool on which casks are placed in a cellar. Stallage. (Same as Stalder.)
3. Accommodation for stalling (horses). rare–1.
1861. Wynter, Soc. Bees, 216. There are two of these [stables], containing stallage for 130 horses.
