PRI'SAGE, noun A right belonging to the crown of England, of taking two tons of wine from every ship importing twenty tons or more; one before and one behind the mast. This by charter of Edward I. was exchanged into a duty of two shillings for every tun imported by merchant strangers, and called butlerage, because paid to the king's butler.
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Webster's Dictionary 1828
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.