butlerage

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Butlerage \But"ler*age\, n. (O. Eng. Law)
   A duty of two shillings on every tun of wine imported into
   England by merchant strangers; -- so called because paid to
   the king's butler for the king. --Blackstone.
   [1913 Webster]
    

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