cornage

  1. Noun.  A feudal tax levied on horned cattle.
  2. Noun.  (legal) An ancient tenure of land, which obliged the tenant to give notice of an invasion by blowing a horn.

This is an unmodified, but possibly outdated, definition from Wiktionary and used here under the Creative Commons license. Wiktionary is a great resource. If you like it too, please donate to Wikimedia.

This entry was last updated on RefTopia from its source on 3/20/2012.