pedage

noun

1. A toll or tax paid by passengers travelling through a specific place, entitling them to safe conduct and protection.

   countable, historical, obsolete, uncountable

   This charter specifies that "New Saresbury" shall be for ever a free city, enclosed with ditches, or trenches; that the citizens shall be quit throughout the land of toll, pontage, passage, pedage, lastage, stallage, carriage, and all other customs;[…].

Where it comes from

From Latin pedagium, for pedaticum. By surface analysis, ped- (“foot”) + -age.

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

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