Of course the state will endeavour to collect the geld in big sums.
The central power may even hold out certain advantages to the lord who will become responsible for the geld of his tenants or justiciables or commended men.
If to a two-shilling geld the hida paid but two shillings, this is a bad, though not unprecedented, case of under-taxation.
Our record is no register of title, it is no feodary, it is no custumal, it is no rent roll; it is a tax book, a geld book.
The petty maneria of Suffolk, what can they be but holdings which geld by themselves?
We much doubt whether the collectors of the geld went round to the cottages of the villeins and demanded here six pence and there four pence; they presented themselves at the lord's hall and asked for a large sum.
True, that some minor purposes may be achieved by the king's commissioners, though the quest for geld is their one main object.
He made an alter at betel, Alſ he god bi-het, ðor he geld wel.
Ich nam mein schwert wol in die hand, 25 Ich gürts wol an die seiten; Da ich kein geld im seckel het, Zu fussen must ich reiten.
Domesday was a fiscal inquest; the object of the commissioners was the collection of geld; geld is collected from persons who live in houses and the word manerium means a house.
For the fiscal purpose of these Norman officials manerium meant "the house at which geld is charged.
Now my legislator--[The Pope who, as Montaigne has told us, took it into his head to geld the statues.
It was therefore explained that the subject here is “Geld,” and the meaning of the proposition is: “Geld fehlt an Geld.
By mine honour, I'll geld 'em all; fourteen they shall not see To bring false generations.
The manor of Countisbury renderedgeld for half a hide, of which the lord held one virgate and four ploughs, and the villeins held one virgate and six ploughs.
These are held by William for one manor, and they rendered geld for one hide.
Countisbury had been held by Ailmar "on the day on which King Edward was alive and dead," and it "rendered geld for half a hide.
It gave the burgesses the right to choose coroners, and as they already farmed the geld payable to the king, Bristol must have been practically independent of the king.
One-third of the geld was paid to Geoffrey de Coutances, bishop of Exeter, who threw up the earthworks of the castle.
Bridport was evidently of some importance before the Conquest, when it consisted of 120 houses rated for all the king's services and paying geld for five hides.
If we were to geld our Theodoricus, he would grow fat much the sooner.
Bendixsen, Geld und Kapital, Leipzig, 1912) has been a good deal influenced by Knapp, and there is a fair chance that American students may have to read his book if they wish to understand the next decade of German monetary history.
Is there nobody here will take the pains to geld his mouth?
The short is, that they were diligent enough to make sure work, and to geld it so clearly in some places, that they took away the very manhood of it.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "geld" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: alter; castrate; change; emasculate; fix; geld; mutilate; neuter; soften; sterilize
