资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Tallage \Tal"lage\, Talliage \Tal"li*age\, n. [F. taillage. See
   {Taille}, and cf. {Tailage}.] (O. Eng. Law)
   A certain rate or tax paid by barons, knights, and inferior
   tenants, toward the public expenses. [Written also {tailage},
   {taillage}.]

   Note: When paid out of knight's fees, it was called scutage;
         when by cities and burghs, tallage; when upon lands not
         held by military tenure, hidage. --Blackstone.