Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Scavage

Scavage (?; 48) , noun

[Late Latin scavagium, from Anglo-Saxon sceáwian to look at, to inspect. See Show.]

(O. Eng. Law) A toll or duty formerly exacted of merchant strangers by mayors, sheriffs, etc., for goods shown or offered for sale within their precincts. — Cowell