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gelt
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Gelt
(gcide) | Gelt \Gelt\, n. [See 1st Geld.]
Trubute, tax. [Obs.]
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All these the king granted unto them . . . free from
all gelts and payments, in a most full and ample
manner. --Fuller.
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Gelt
(gcide) | Gelt \Gelt\, n. [See Gelt, v. t.]
A gelding. [Obs.] --Mortimer.
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Gelt
(gcide) | Gelt \Gelt\, n.
Gilding; tinsel. [Obs.] --Spenser.
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gelt
(wn) | gelt
n 1: informal terms for money [syn: boodle, bread,
cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale,
lettuce, lolly, lucre, loot, moolah, pelf,
scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum] |
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gelt
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Danegelt
(gcide) | 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.
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Wehrgelt
(gcide) | Wehrgeld \Wehr"geld`\, Wehrgelt \Wehr"gelt`\, n. (O. Eng. Law)
See Weregild.
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weregelt
(gcide) | Weregild \Were"gild`\, n. [AS. wergild; wer a man, value set on
a man's life + gild payment of money; akin to G. wehrgeld.
[root]285. See Were a man, and Geld, n.] (O. Eng. Law)
The price of a man's head; a compensation paid of a man
killed, partly to the king for the loss of a subject, partly
to the lord of a vassal, and partly to the next of kin. It
was paid by the murderer. [Written also weregeld,
weregelt, etc.] --Blackstone.
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gelt
(wn) | gelt
n 1: informal terms for money [syn: boodle, bread,
cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale,
lettuce, lolly, lucre, loot, moolah, pelf,
scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum] |
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