Poundage

Part of speech: noun (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. 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.

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. Confinement of cattle, or other animals, in a public pound.

2. A charge paid for the release of impounded cattle.

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To collect, as poundage; to assess, or rate, by poundage. [R.]