Danegelt的翻译,读音

英/'dein^elt/

释义:

单词Danegelt书写

n. [亦作d-]=Danegeld
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.