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Danegelt

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(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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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Danegelt'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​d/danegelt.html. 1828.
 
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