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Grammar : Verb |
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Phonetic Transcription : gɛld |
Definition of geld
Origin :- "royal tax in medieval England," Old English gield "payment, tribute," from Proto-Germanic *geldam "payment" (cf. Middle High German gelt "payment, contribution," German geld "money," Old Norse gjald "payment," Gothic gild "tribute, tax"), from PIE root of yield (v.).
- verb castrate
- Geld, money, has no connection with gold, but is cognate with Eng.
- Extract from : « The Romance of Words (4th ed.) » by Ernest Weekley
- Does your worship mean to geld and splay all the youth of the city?
- Extract from : « Measure for Measure » by William Shakespeare
- Power came to him with travail and through toil, the geld of craft and of force.
- Extract from : « Harold, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
- A manerium does not cease to be a manerium by being freed from geld.
- Extract from : « Domesday Book and Beyond » by Frederic William Maitland
- The petty maneria of Suffolk, what can they be but holdings which geld by themselves?
- Extract from : « Domesday Book and Beyond » by Frederic William Maitland
- The number of hides that is put before us is the number of hides for geld.
- Extract from : « Domesday Book and Beyond » by Frederic William Maitland
- The scotum in this context seems to be or to include the geld.
- Extract from : « Domesday Book and Beyond » by Frederic William Maitland
- He who has seven houses against which geld is charged is a big man.
- Extract from : « Domesday Book and Beyond » by Frederic William Maitland
- Of course the state will endeavour to collect the geld in big sums.
- Extract from : « Domesday Book and Beyond » by Frederic William Maitland
- But further, the assessment of the geld sadly needed reform.
- Extract from : « Domesday Book and Beyond » by Frederic William Maitland
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