Crossword-Solution: HIDAGE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Hidage | n. | A tax formerly paid to the kings of England for every hide of land. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| HIDAGE | anagram | EIDGAH |
We have 3 clues for the answer “HIDAGE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| BRITISH land tax, former | 1 answer |
| BRITISH tax, former | 1 answer |
| former tax on land | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ARETE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with HIDAGE (5)
There are thirty years’ claims of escuage unsettled, and there is Sergeant Wilkins, the lawyer of Guildford, whom I will warrant to draw up such arrears of dues and rents and issues of hidage and fodder-corn that these folk, who are as beggarly as they are proud, will have to sell the roof-tree over them ere they can meet them.
The hidage of Essex in 1130 was 2364 hides.] The great difficulty of the early Abacists, owing to the absence of a figure representing zero, was to place their results and operations in the proper columns of the abacus, especially when doing a division sum.
Hidage is historically connected with the old English Danegeld system, and in some cases its amount is set out separately from other payments, and the tenants of a manor have to pay it to the bailiff of the hundred and not to the steward.
Again a document called _The Tribal Hidage_ puts the number of hides in the whole of England at nearly a quarter of a million.
What is the connexion, if any, between the hundred and a hundred hides? Again, was the size of the hide fixed at 120 acres to make the work of reckoning the amount of Danegeld, or hidage, a simple process? 120 acres to the hide, 240 pence to the pound, makes calculations easy.