noun a charge paid for the release of impounded cattle.
2. poundage ·vt to collect, as poundage; to assess, or rate, by poundage.
3. poundage ·noun confinement of cattle, or other animals, in a public pound.
4. poundage ·noun a sum deducted from a pound, or a certain sum paid for each pound; a commission.
5. poundage ·noun a subsidy of twelve pence in the pound, formerly granted to the crown on all goods exported or imported, and if by aliens, more.
6. poundage ·noun the sum allowed to a sheriff or other officer upon the amount realized by an execution;
estimated in england, and formerly in the united states, at so much of the pound.