pontage means A duty or tax paid for repairing bridges. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
Etymology
From Latin pons, pontis (“a bridge”): compare French pontage.
noun
- A duty or tax paid for repairing bridges.“They pay no Toll for Goods which they have in Right of the Church , and were formerly by the common Law discharg'd from Pontage and Murage”