escuage

noun

1. Payment to a lord in lieu of military service.

   countable, historical, uncountable

   […] subsidies were not to be granted, nor levied in this case ; that is, for wars of Scotland : for that the law had provided another course, by service of escuage, for those journeys […]

Where it comes from

Inherited from Middle English scuage, from Old French escuage; in Modern English, remodelled on the Old French etymon.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry escuage (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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