noun
Meaning 1
A tax formerly paid to the kings of England for every hide of land.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, countable, historical, obsolete, uncountable
Topics: law
Examples
- 1898, Hannis Taylor, The Origin and Growth of the English Constitution, Part 2: The After-growth of the Constitution, In the case of the towns, to which the reckoning by hides could not be applied, the Danegeld or hidage was probably compounded for, and such composition represents no doubt the later talliage.4 In the ninth year of Henry II. the Danegeld as such finally disappeared from the Rolls, but only to reappear as aid or hidage, and in the reign of Richard I. as carucage.
Meaning relationships
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