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hydage

hydage is the alternative form of hidage.

Meaning of hidage

Noun

hidage (countable and uncountable, plural hidages)

  1. (UK, historical, obsolete) A tax formerly paid to the kings of England for every hide of land.
    • In the case of the towns, to which the reckoning by hides could not be applied, the Danegeld or hidage was probably compounded for, and such composition represents no doubt the later talliage.⁴ In the ninth year of Henry II. the Danegeld as such finally disappeared from the Rolls, but only to...1898, Hannis Taylor, The Origin and Growth of the English Constitution, Part 2: The After-growth of the Constitution
  2. (historical) The total area of land, measured in hides.

Forms of hydage

pluralhydages

Questions about hydage

What is hydage the alternative form of?
Hydage is the alternative form of hidage.

Words near hydage in the dictionary

  1. hyclate
  2. hyclates
  3. Hycsos
  4. hyd
  5. hyd.
  6. hydage
  7. hydages
  8. hydantocidin
  9. hydantoic
  10. hydantoic acid
  11. hydantoin

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