thenage

== English == === Noun === thenage (countable and uncountable, plural thenages) Alternative form of thanage. 1813, J. Hodgson, F. C. Laird, The Beauties of England and Wales, Volume 12, Part 1, page 209, Hepple was held in thenage, by the annual payment of fifty shillings, by the ancestors of William Bardolf, in whose time King John changed that service into one knight's fee.