pontage

From Latin pons, pontis (“a bridge”): compare French pontage.

pontage (plural pontages)

1. (UK, law, obsolete) A duty or tax paid for repairing bridges.
   • 1726, John Ayliffe, Parergon juris canonici Anglicani

     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

• pontage in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

• eptagon

From pont +‎ -age.

• IPA^(key): /pɔ̃.taʒ/

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pontage m (plural pontages)

1. (medicine) bypass (an alternative passage created to divert a bodily fluid around a damaged organ)
2. bridge-building

• “pontage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.