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Meaning of RIVAGE

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Riv"age\, n. [F., fr. L. ripa bank, shore.]
1. A bank, shore, or coast. [Archaic] --Spenser.
         From the green rivage many a fall Of diamond rillets
         musical.                              --Tennyson.
2. (O.Eng.Law) A duty paid to the crown for the passage of
   vessels on certain rivers.
 
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