Home › Words › B › barbicanagebarbicanagebarbicanage · noun — A tax, similar to murage, paid for the upkeep of a barbican.Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).EtymologyFrom barbican + -age, or from Late Latin barbicanagium.nounA tax, similar to murage, paid for the upkeep of a barbican.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.barbicaned 69% match — Having a barbican. vs barbicanage →barbican 68% match — A tower at the entrance to a castle or fortified town. vs barbicanage →barmkin 60% match — The battlement on the exterior fortification of a castle in northern England and parts of Scotland; a barbican. vs barbicanage →burghbote 59% match — A tax paid toward the building or repairing of castles or walls for the defense of a city or town. vs barbicanage →burgage 59% match — A medieval tenure in socage under which property in England and Scotland was held under the king or a lord of a town, and was maintained for a yearly rent or for rendering an inferior service (not knight's service) such as watching and warding. vs barbicanage →cornage 57% match — A feudal tax levied on horned cattle. vs barbicanage →carucage 57% match — A form of land taxation that replaced Danegeld in twelfth-century England. vs barbicanage →caphar 55% match — A toll or duty imposed by the Turks on Christian merchants. vs barbicanage →