Pound"age (?), n. 1.
A sum deducted from a pound, or a certain sum paid for each
pound; a commission.
2. A subsidy of twelve pence in the pound,
formerly granted to the crown on all goods exported or imported, and
if by aliens, more. [Eng.] Blackstone.
3. (Law) 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. Burrill. Bouvier.
Pound"age, v. t. To collect, as
poundage; to assess, or rate, by poundage. [R.]
Pound"age, n. [See 3d Pound.]
1. Confinement of cattle, or other animals, in a
public pound.
2. A charge paid for the release of impounded
cattle.
