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Meaning of THIRLAGE

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Thirl"age\, n. [Cf. {Thrall}.] (Scots Law)
The right which the owner of a mill possesses, by contract or
law, to compel the tenants of a certain district, or of his
sucken, to bring all their grain to his mill for grinding.
--Erskine.
 
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