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noun
A tax paid on each hide of land; hidage.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical, uncountable
Qualifier: Anglo-Saxon
Topics: law
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noun
A fine paid in lien of a flogging.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical, uncountable
Qualifier: Anglo-Saxon
Topics: law
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History
Learned borrowing from Old English hīdġield (“a tax paid on each hide of land”). Compare hide (“measure of land”), geld.
Learned borrowing from Old English hȳdġyld, hȳdġield (“a fine to buy one out of receiving a flogging”, literally “a payment to save one's skin”). Compare hide (“skin”), geld.
