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Definition of Pierages
1. pierage [n] - See also: pierage
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pierages
Literary usage of Pierages
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"In 1866 and [883 he published editions of his father's Dictionary of the pierages
of England, Scotland and Ireland, extinct, dormant and n abeyance (earlier ..."
2. Reports of State Trials: New Series... 1820 to [1858]...by Great Britain State Trials Committee, John Macdonell, John Edward Power Wallis by Great Britain State Trials Committee, John Macdonell, John Edward Power Wallis (1898)
"... and then to create a peer— "as often as any one of such 100 pierages shall
fail by extinction," Looking at the whole of the fourth article then, ..."
3. An Historical Account of the Plantation in Ulster at the Commencement of the by George Hill (1877)
"See Burke's Dormant and Extinct pierages, pp. 601, 602. (79). More tyme.—Mr.
Canning had gone down the Bann from Agivey to Coleraine, to hear one of his own ..."
4. The Revised Reports: Being a Republication of Such Cases in the English by Frederick Pollock, Robert Campbell, Oliver Augustus Saunders, Arthur Beresford Cane, Joseph Gerald Pease, William Bowstead, Great Britain Courts (1900)
"... pierages outwards and inwards, convoy, dock, and all other duties which were
or might thereafter be imposed on ship and cargo, or either of them, ..."
5. A Catalogue of the Greek and Etruscan Vases in the British Museum by Samuel Birch, Charles Thomas Newton (1870)
"... girt at the waist with a broad black girdle, and hanging down the sides in
long pierages; it has a deep black border; on her left arm she wears the ..."
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