Danegelt
/'dein^elt/
📖 中文释义
- n. [亦作d-]=Danegeld
📘 English Definition（英文释义）
- 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.