The Collaborative International Dictionary
Adjutage \Ad"ju*tage\ ([a^]d"j[-u]*t[asl]j), n. Same as Ajutage.
Wiktionary
n. (alternative form of ajutage English)
Usage examples of "adjutage".
He had the advantage of owning an excellent network of reporters of transgressions, for he enlisted Lucius Decumius and his crossroads brethren as informers, and cracked down very hard on merchants who weighed light or measured short, on builders who infringed boundaries or used poor materials, on landlords who had cheated the water companies by inserting bigger-bore adjutage pipes from the mains into their properties than the law prescribed.
The size or bore of the adjutage was strictly regulated by law, and under the authority of the aediles.
Here am I with a pack of villains on my hands and no way to convict them of tinkering with the water adjutages, let alone treason!
Here am I with a pack of villains on my hands and no way to convict them of tinkering with the water adjutages, let alone treason!