资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Danegeld \Dane"geld`\, Danegelt \Dane"gelt`\, n. [AS. danegeld.
   See {Dane}, and {Geld}, n.] (Eng. Hist.)
   An annual tax formerly laid on the English nation to buy off
   the ravages of Danish invaders, or to maintain forces to
   oppose them. It afterward became a permanent tax, raised by
   an assessment, at first of one shilling, afterward of two
   shillings, upon every hide of land throughout the realm.
   --Wharton's Law Dict. Tomlins.