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English → English (gcide) Definition: Danegeld Danegeld \Dane"geld`\, Danegelt \Dane"gelt`\, n. [AS. danegeld. See Dane, and Geld, n.] (Eng. Hist.) An annual tax formerly laid on the English nation to buy off the ravages of Danish invaders, or to maintain forces to oppose them. It afterward became a permanent tax, raised by an assessment, at first of one shilling, afterward of two shillings, upon every hide of land throughout the realm. --Wharton's Law Dict. Tomlins. [1913 Webster]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Danegeld Danegeld \Dane"geld`\, Danegelt \Dane"gelt`\, n. [AS. danegeld. See Dane, and Geld, n.] (Eng. Hist.) An annual tax formerly laid on the English nation to buy off the ravages of Danish invaders, or to maintain forces to oppose them. It afterward became a permanent tax, raised by an assessment, at first of one shilling, afterward of two shillings, upon every hide of land throughout the realm. --Wharton's Law Dict. Tomlins. [1913 Webster]
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