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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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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. | |
