Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A tax formerly paid to the kings of England for every hide of land.
- noun The assessed value or measurement of an estate for this purpose.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (O. Eng. Law.) A tax formerly paid to the kings of England for every hide of land.
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- noun UK, law, obsolete A
tax formerly paid to thekings ofEngland for everyhide ofland .
Etymologies
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Examples
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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.
Sir Nigel Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1906
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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.
Sir Nigel Arthur Conan Doyle 1894
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