Definitions for gelds

gelds geld

Spelling: [geld]
IPA: /gɛld/

Gelds is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 59 anagrams from letters in gelds (degls).

Definitions for gelds

noun

  1. a payment; tax.
  2. a tax paid to the crown by landholders under the Anglo-Saxon and Norman kings.

verb (used with object)

  1. to castrate (an animal, especially a horse).
  2. to take strength, vitality, or power from; weaken or subdue.

Origin of gelds

1250-1300; Middle English gelden Old Norse gelda

Examples for gelds

He who has seven houses against which geld is charged is a big man.

geld, money, has no connection with gold, but is cognate with Eng.

But further, the assessment of the geld sadly needed reform.

The number of hides that is put before us is the number of hides for geld.

The scotum in this context seems to be or to include the geld.

A manerium does not cease to be a manerium by being freed from geld.

Of course the state will endeavour to collect the geld in big sums.

The petty maneria of Suffolk, what can they be but holdings which geld by themselves?

Power came to him with travail and through toil, the geld of craft and of force.

Does your worship mean to geld and splay all the youth of the city?

Word Value for gelds
Scrable

6

Words with friends

8

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