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Metate vs Metage - What's the difference?

metate | metage |

As nouns the difference between metate and metage

is that metate is a flat stone with a slightly concave surface, used with another stone (a mano) for grinding maize or other grains while metage is measurement, especially of coal.

metate

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A flat stone with a slightly concave surface, used with another stone (a mano) for grinding maize or other grains.

    • metage

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Measurement, especially of coal.
    • (De Foe)
  • A fee paid for a measurement.
    • (Simmonds)
  • * 1858', City of London (England) Corporation, ''The Title of the Corporation of London to Its '''Metage Revenues , page 4,
    • The corporation of London'' acquired its metage''' rights from the crown before the time of legal memory, and now holds them by the best of titles, ''prescriptive right'' and ''immemorial possession''; for, except in those memorable periods in English history, the reigns of King ''John'', King ''James'' the First, King ''Charles'' the Second, and King ''James'' the Second, the right and title of the corporation to its ' metage due has never been questioned or disturbed.
    (Webster 1913)