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Fare

meaning the expense of a journey or passage across water, is the Anglo-Saxon fare or fœr, a journey; verb, faran, to travel. (Archaic, feriage, the fare for crossing a ferry.)

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.