different between pennage vs pannage

English

Etymology 1

pen +? -age

Noun

pennage (countable and uncountable, plural pennages)

1. The confining of animals in pens.
2. A fee paid for the accommodation of animals in pens.

Etymology 2

From Latin penna (“feather”).

Noun

pennage

1. (obsolete) feathery covering; plumage

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Anagrams

• pangene

English

Etymology

Borrowed into Middle English from Old French pasnage (modern French panage), from Late Latin pasnadium, pastinaticum, from pastionare (“to feed on mast, as swine”), from Latin pastio (“a pasturing, grazing”). See pastor.

Noun

pannage (countable and uncountable, plural pannages)

1. Acorns and beech mast used as forage for pigs.
2. Feeding of pigs on acorns and beech mast in the woods.
3. The right to so feed pigs.
4. (historical) A tax formerly paid for the privilege of feeding swine in the woods.

Further reading

• James A. H. Murray [et al.], editors (1884–1928) , “Pannage”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume VII (O–P), London: Clarendon Press, OCLC 15566697, page 424, column 2.
• pannage on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• panaeng