The food of swine in the woods, as beechnuts, acorns, etc.; -- called also pawns.
A tax paid for the privilege of feeding swine in the woods.
Pasturage of pigs in woods; payment for that pasturage. (Bennett, Judith M. Women in the Medieval English Countryside, 234) Fee to allow pigs to feed on forest mast. (Gies, Frances and Joseph. Life in a Medieval Village, 245)
Payment to a lord for the grazing rights on the lord's meadow or in his woods.
Food such as acorns that swine (pigs), etc., feed on in the woods. The right to let your swine feed in the woods. Often restricted to a certain number of days per year or to a set period. In the "New Forest" in Hampshire, "New Forest Commoners" still have this right. Each autumn their pigs eat the green acorns. This also protects the wild "New Forest" ponies from eating acorns and being poisoned.
A fee to allow pigs to feed on forest mast.
pannequion Mast, or autumn feed for pigs, which were allowed to graze freely on the acorns and beechnuts on the woodland floor. The right to pannage is still part of some forest laws.
The autumn feed for pigs; also a payment for pasturing pigs.
Pannage is an English legal term for the practice of turning out domestic pigs in a wood or forest, in order that they may feed on such things as fallen acorns or beechmast. Today Pannage is observed in the New Forest national park of Southern England, where it is also known as "Common of Mast". It is still an important part of the forest ecology.