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danegeld \dane"geld`\, danegelt \dane"gelt`\, n. as. danegeld.
   see dane, and geld, n. eng. hist.
   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.
   --wharton's law dict. tomlins.
   1913 webster
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