An assessed tax, duty, or levy.
Usually preceded by good or (more commonly) bad: luck or success.
The area along either side of a railroad track which is kept at a lower level than the sleeper bottom, in order to provide drainage.
To levy a cess.
The act of levying.
The tax, property or people so levied.
To raise, as a siege.
To raise or collect by assessment; to exact by authority.
To erect, build, or set up; to make or construct; to raise or cast up.
To draft someone into military service.
To raise; to collect; said of troops, to form into an army by enrollment, conscription. etc.
To wage war.
To impose (a tax or fine) to collect monies due, or to confiscate property.