1. A toll paid for the passage of wheeled vehicles; cost of carriage in a wheeled vehicle, cartage. Hist.
1611. Cotgr., Droict de Roūage, wheelage.
1672. (title) Deed between William Osbolston … and the Mayor and Corporation of London, relates to the Collection of Tolls, or Wheelage over Old London Bridge (MS.).
1765. Lond. Chron., 25 April, 398. The Committee … lett … the toll of carts and wheelage over London-Bridge.
1808. Hist. Worcester, 93. A ton of coal, threepence for wheelage.
1894. C. Welch, Tower Bridge, 48. The Sheriffs never had anything to do with the wheelage, which was collected by a City-officer.
† 2. Wheel-making. Obs. rare–0.
1681. W. Robertson, Phraseol. Gen., 1312. Whcelage, or wheel-work, rotarum fabricatio.
