hidegild

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English[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Learned borrowing from Old English hīdġield (“a tax paid on each hide of land”). Compare hide (“measure of land”), geld.

Alternative forms[edit]

Noun[edit]

hidegild (uncountable)

  1. (Anglo-Saxon, historical, law) A tax paid on each hide of land; hidage.

Etymology 2[edit]

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.

Alternative forms[edit]

Noun[edit]

hidegild (uncountable)

  1. (Anglo-Saxon, historical, law) A fine paid in lien of a flogging.
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