DANEGELT

Noun

Danegelt (uncountable)

Alternative form of Danegeld

Anagrams

• detangle

Source: Wiktionary


Dane"geld`, Dane"gelt`, n. Etym: [AS. danegeld. See Dane, and Geld, n.] (Eng. Hist.)

Definition: 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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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