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(historical) An annual tax of one penny on every hearth, collected in England and Ireland and sent to Rome, from the beginning of the tenth century until it was abolished by Henry VIII.
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(obsolete, law) A quantity of oats paid by a tenant to a landlord in lieu of rent.
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(US, military) The monthly pay given to members of the active-duty military, determined by pay grade.
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(England law, historical) Black rent, or rent paid in corn, meat, or the lowest coin, as opposed to white rent, which was paid in silver.
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Alternative form of blanch holding [(Scotland, law, obsolete) A mode of tenure by the payment of a small duty in white rent (silver) or otherwise.]
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A right to take wood from property not one's own.
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(law, archaic) A duty formerly paid to the king's butler on every tun of wine imported into England by foreign merchants.
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Alternative form of catchpole [(obsolete) A taxman, one who gathers taxes.]
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(Britain, law) the legal requirement for homeowners to pay for their local church's repairs
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Alternative form of chimney-money [A tax formerly paid on all chimneys in England.]
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(historical) A tax formerly paid on all chimneys in England.
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A tax formerly paid on all chimneys in England.
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A list of individuals to whom money is paid by the government, originally for expenses supporting the monarch.
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Alternative form of conscience money [(idiomatic) Money which is voluntarily paid by a party who feels guilt, and seeks to provide compensation, for some past misdeed or negligence.]
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Labor, especially for roads or dams, in lieu of taxes.
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(law, historical) An allowance of wood made to a tenant.
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(chiefly Scotland) The hiring of servants for a fee
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(UK, law, obsolete) A rent, service, tribute, custom, tax, impost, or duty; an excise.
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(law, historical) A collector of gabels or taxes.
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Alternative form of gabeler [(law, historical) A collector of gabels or taxes.]
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(archaic) A periodic payment, such as is made of a rent or annuity.
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(law, UK, obsolete) A special kind of cessavit once used in Kent and London for the recovery of rent.
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(historical) Someone who pays gavel for rented land.
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(historical) In particular, (money paid as) a medieval form of land tax.
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(law, historical) A lump sum paid by individuals who take a lease of landed property in England.
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(historical) Any of several taxes levied in medieval Europe based on the number of hearths (fireplaces) in a property or community.
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(UK, law, obsolete or historical) A tax formerly paid to the kings of England for every hide of land.
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Alternative form of hidegild [(Anglo-Saxon, historical, law) A tax paid on each hide of land; hidage.]
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(Anglo-Saxon, historical, law) A tax paid on each hide of land; hidage.
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The purchase of a house.
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Alternative form of hidage [(UK, law, obsolete or historical) A tax formerly paid to the kings of England for every hide of land.]
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(Scotland, law) poultry, etc., required by the lease to be paid in kind by a tenant to the landlord.
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(historical) The rent paid for a burgage.
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(obsolete) A tax on wares sold by the last.
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In Lombard law, symbolic compensation paid in response to a donation
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(UK, Scotland, obsolete) Money owed for a service rendered.
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(now historical) A piece of land having a value of one pound per year.
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(historical) Compensation for the injury done by slaying a kinsman.
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Alternative form of merchet [(obsolete) In Middle Ages England, a fine paid to a lord on a daughter's marriage, in recompense for the loss of a worker.]
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(obsolete) A tax or tallage; in Wales, an honorary gift of the people to a new king or prince of Wales; also, a tribute paid, in the county palatine of Chester, England, at the change of the owner of the earldom.
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(obsolete) A tax paid to the first two Norman kings of England to prevent them from debasing the coin.
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A tax paid for building or repairing the walls of a fortified town.
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In Russia, a poll tax paid by peasants absent from their lord's estate.
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(obsolete, Scotland, especially law) A usurer.
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(historical, UK, military) An allowance formerly made to certain British officers from the money appropriated for army clothing.
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(historical) A tax formerly paid for the privilege of feeding swine in the woods.
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(UK) A United Kingdom government policy, due to come into effect in April 2017 but never implemented, whereby council tenants earning £30,000 (£40,000 in London) would have to pay "market or near market rents".
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(law, UK, obsolete or historical) Money paid at fairs for permission to break ground for booths.
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(historical) A poll tax imposed in Scotland by the Edinburgh parliament in 1693, 1695, and 1698.
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(US politics, colloquial) Money paid to voting precinct leaders for get out the vote efforts, sometimes corruptly.
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(historical) Money paid to men when they enlisted into the British service.
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(archaic, UK) An import duty levied by a guild of harbour pilots (especially at Kingston-upon-Hull and Newcastle-upon-Tyne).
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(obsolete) rent (form of payment)
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(US, regional, now historical) A government official who enforces laws prohibiting the illegal distillation of alcohol.
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(obsolete) extra pay given to soldiers for serving against their fellow citizens, for example in quashing civil disorder
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(historical) An assessment formerly levied in every county in Scotland for the expenses of catching and prosecuting criminals.
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(historical) A toll or duty anciently exacted from merchant strangers by mayors, sheriffs, etc. for goods offered for sale within their precincts.
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(UK, historical) A local tax, paid originally to the lord or ruler and later to a sheriff.
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(UK, historical) A parish tax laid on subjects according to their ability.
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(historical) A tax, paid in lieu of military service, that was a significant source of revenue in England in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.
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(historical) A tax applied to coastal towns for their defence in wartime.
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Obsolete form of scat (“rain shower”). [A tax; tribute.]
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(law, obsolete, UK) A tenant by socage; a socman.
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(historical) Money paid for apprehending deserters and those absent without leave.
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An allowance granted to general officers in the army, and flag officers in the navy, to enable them to fulfil the duties of hospitality within their respective commands.
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(historical) A form of taxation levied on the land of peasants in pre-Revolutionary France.
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(law, Scotland) An entailment or deed whereby the legal course of succession is cut off, and an arbitrary one substituted.
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(UK, law, obsolete or historical) A certain rate or tax paid by barons, knights, and inferior tenants toward the public expenses.
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(UK, derogatory) An addition to income tax payable only by those in Scotland as a result of the Scottish variable rate.
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(UK, Cambridge University) One of two officers chosen yearly to regulate the assize of bread, and to see the true gauge of weights and measures is observed.
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(Scotland, transitive) To tithe.
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(obsolete) A tax; an impost.
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(historical) An annual duty formerly paid in England by housekeepers towards providing harness, drums, colours, etc. for the militia.
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(chiefly in the plural, obsolete) Money given to servants by visitors; a gratuity; also vale.
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(historical, especially in Germanic law) Compensation thus determined and paid; a reparative payment.
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(historical) A poll tax of eightpence paid by tinners to the Duke of Cornwall.
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(historical, law) An exemption to the fee for the cutting or taking of wood from a forest.
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