danegeld
8 letters · noun · scores 2,200 in SpellHuntr
noun
A tax raised originally to pay tribute or protection money to the Viking raiders in the 10th and 11th centuries to save a land from being ravaged, and later continued as a land tax.
Danegeld in a sentence
And who shall then stick closest to ye, and excite others? not he who takes up armes for cote and conduct, and his four nobles of Danegelt.
But this part of the industry still had to pay Danegeld to the already over-endowed City.
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