A tax paid on every hide of land; hidage.

In parts of England under Danish influence, a name in 12th and 13th centuries for the land tax levied on a carucate; the carucage.

A tax payable to the royal exchequer, assessed at a certain quota for each hide of land.

a tribute or tax paid to a superior (see quot. 1872).

‘A perpetual yearly duty payable upon land, and made a real burden upon it either by constitution or reservation’ (Sheriff Æ. J. G. Mackay).

= hidegeld, n.1

A tax levied on each plough or carucate of land.

In Orkney and Shetland, the land-tax paid to the Crown by a udal tenant. †Also, in certain parts of Scotland and the north of England, the…

= carucage, n.

In extended use: a rate or charge levied upon the owner or occupier of (pasture) lands. Obsolete.

General attributive, as geld inquest, geld levy, geld roll, etc.