单词 | nowt-geld |
释义 | † nowt-geldn. historical (chiefly English regional (northern)). Obsolete. A rent-payment in cattle; (also) a tax levied on cattle. Cf. cornage n. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > payment for privilege > [noun] > of keeping specific animals swannage1398 ox-pennya1400 hungil1450 warrenage1610 ox-money1616 nowt-geld1688 sheep-penny1774 society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > hire or rent > rent (land or real property) > [noun] > paid in produce or livestock > specific rynmart1433 rynmutton1459 capon1495 mart1520 tack-swine1523 reek hen1540 farm meal1547 reek-poultry1585 reek fowl1592 corn-rate1665 wheat-rent?c1682 nowt-geld1688 farm-dish1713 corn-rent1809 pepper-rent1866 1688 Dictionariolum Islandicum in R. Jonsson Recentissima Antiquissimæ Linguæ Septentrionalis Incunabula 107/1 Nowt-geld, tributum pro pecore solutum. 1825 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words Nout-geld, Neat-geld, cornage rent, originally paid in cattle—horn tax. 1872 E. W. Robertson Hist. Ess. 134 Nowt-geld or Cornage appears both as an obligation and as a tenure. 1894 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words 506 Nout-geld, horn tax... In old rentals ‘cornage’ is translated ‘newtgeldt’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1688 |
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