n. A rent, service, tribute, custom, tax, impost, or duty; an excise.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. A rent, service, tribute, custom, tax, impost, or duty; an excise.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. A tax, impost, or excise duty, especially in continental Europe; formerly, in France, specifically the tax on salt, but also applied to taxes on other industrial products.
To tax.
Word Usage
"The ville surrounding it only contained ninety-five houses, paying gabel-tax, in the Norman survey."