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Commonage

Commonage \Com"mon*age\, n. [Cf. OF. communage.] The right of pasturing on a common; the right of using anything in common with others.

The claim of commonage . . . in most of the forests.
--Burke.

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commonage

n. 1 The condition of land that is held in common 2 The right to pasture animals on common land

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commonage

n. property held in common

Usage examples of "commonage".

His politeness for the fair sex has already been hinted at by Miss Rebecca Sharp—in a word, the whole baronetage, peerage, commonage of England, did not contain a more cunning, mean, selfish, foolish, disreputable old man.

Lotbar jumped back into the Land-Rover and drove swiftly to the next road junction, and turned down it towards the open commonage and the school.