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Gelt  n.  Trubute, tax. (Obs.) "All these the king granted unto them... free from all gelts and payments, in a most full and ample manner."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Gelt" Quotes from Famous Books



... a strange effect: it emasculates both man, beast, and bird, and brings them to a near resemblance of the other sex. Thus eunuchs have smooth, unmuscular arms, thighs, and legs; and broad hips, and beardless chins, and squeaking voices. Gelt stags and bucks have hornless heads, like hinds and does. Thus wethers have small horns, like ewes; and oxen large bent horns, and hoarse voices when they low, like cows: for bulls have short straight horns; and though they mutter and ...
— The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 2 • Gilbert White

... to age had marshalled the hardy borderers to deeds of warlike prowess. Lord Hunsdon, the governor of Berwick, marched promptly forth with all the force he could muster to disperse the rebels; but this time they stood firmly on the banks of the little river Gelt, to give him battle. Such indeed was the height of fanaticism or despair to which these unhappy people were wrought up, that the phrensy gained the softer sex; and there were seen in their ranks, says the chronicler, "many desperate women ...
— Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth • Lucy Aikin



Words linked to "Gelt" :   wampum, cabbage, pelf, clams, lettuce, sugar, scratch, loot, kale



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