Obs. exc. Hist. Also 7 sumage. [Only as an artificial rendering of med.L. summagium (1249 in Gross, Gild Merch.), ad. OF. somage:—med. L. *sagmaticum (cf. summaticum, 1214 in Du C.), f. L. sagma (see SUM sb.2).]

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  1.  A toll payable for carriage on horseback.

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c. 1450.  Godstow Reg., 665. Vtterly quyte fro shires and hundredis,… and workes of Castels and howses,… of summage and cariage.

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1607.  Cowell, Interpr., Sumage (Sumagium) seemeth to be tolle for cariage on horseback.

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1867.  Hart, Hist. & Cartul. S. Petri Glouc. (Rolls), III. Introd. p. xxii. Their land was to be free from toll, carriage, summage [etc.].

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  2.  A load. (Cf. SOMMAGE.)

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c. 1660.  Sir T. Widdrington, Anal. Ebor. (1897), 251. To receive … of every summage of horse carrying fish, a pennyworth of fish.

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