hidegild

== English == === Etymology 1 === Learned borrowing from Old English hīdġield (“a tax paid on each hide of land”). Compare hide (“measure of land”), geld. ==== Alternative forms ==== hidegeld ==== Noun ==== hidegild (uncountable) (Anglo-Saxon, historical, law) A tax paid on each hide of land; hidage. === Etymology 2 === 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 ==== hydegild ==== Noun ==== hidegild (uncountable) (Anglo-Saxon, historical, law) A fine paid in lien of a flogging.