sceat
/ʃæt/
sceat noun: a small Anglo-Saxon coin, especially one made of silver; sometimes regarded as a weight (and thus a comparative measure of a coin's value).
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Noun
sceat (plural sceats)
- A small Anglo-Saxon coin, especially one made of silver; sometimes regarded as a weight (and thus a comparative measure of a coin's value).
- In the Anglo-Saxon laws there is no passage from which the value of the ‘sceat’ can be ascertained with certainty, though from some places in the laws of Ethelbirht it would appear, that, in Kent at least, 20 sceats were equal to 1 scilling.1840, Ancient Laws and Institutes of England, Volume 2, Commissioners on the Public Records of the Kingdom, unnumbered page
- The Obolus and the Scruple appear to have been equally familiar to the Anglo-Saxons under the names of the older sceat and penny. The Kentishmen seem to have resembled the Franks in their coinage as well as in their Wergilds, for their scilling weighed 20 sceats; and as the scilling was only a...1862, Eben William Robertson, Scotland Under Her Early Kings, Edmonston and Douglas, page 347
Forms of sceat
| plural | sceats |
|---|---|
| alternative form | sceatt |
| alternative form | sceatta |
Origin of sceat
Learned borrowing from Old English sceatt.
Words that rhyme with sceat
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- mat
- slat
- blat
- matt
- matte
- nat
- pat
- sat
- scat
- sprat
- vat
- old hat
- phat
- plat
- prat
- rabat
- spat
- tat
- @
- acrobat
- anticat
- antifat
- antirat
- batt
- big cat
- Cheshire cat
- clat
- combat
- gat
- glatt
- gnat
- manat
- Montserrat
- plait
- scrat
- skat
- stat
- the fact that
- twat
- whereat
- begat
- Bratt
- BTO flat
- chowkat
- dassie rat
- dat
- despotat
- drat
Questions about sceat
- What does sceat mean?
- Sceat means a small Anglo-Saxon coin, especially one made of silver; sometimes regarded as a weight (and thus a comparative measure of a coin's value).
- What part of speech is sceat?
- Sceat is a noun.
- How do you pronounce sceat?
- Sceat is pronounced /ʃæt/.
- What is the plural of sceat?
- The plural of sceat is sceats.
Words near sceat in the dictionary
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