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  Word: Danegelt

  ID	Word	Wordtype	Definition
  38584	Danegelt	n.	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.

  
  

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