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Danegeld
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What's The Definition Of Danegeld?Synonyms | Synonyms for Danegeld: Related Terms | Find terms related to Danegeld: See Also | Danegeld In Webster's Dictionary \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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