| 单词 | scot-penny |
| 释义 | > as lemmasscot-penny scot-penny now historical and rare a sum paid towards municipal charges and taxes; cf. penny n. 4. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > payment > contribution > [noun] > share contributed by individual > for entertainment scot-penny1319 scotc1325 shotc1475 wine lawc1488 potation penny1525 whip1861 1319 in C. Gross Gild Merchant (1890) II. 13 (MED) Singulos solvent denarios qui Scot peny vocatur. 1338 in C. Gross Gild Merchant (1890) II. 335 Summa denariorum receptorum de scotpanes, sigepanes et hanspanes in Domo inferiori xlii.s. v d. 1820 F. Palgrave tr. Ynglinga Saga in Edinb. Rev. Aug. 183 Throughout all Swedland, the people paid unto Odin a scotpenny for each nose [Icel. skatt, penning fyrir nef hvert]. 1932 E. Monsen & A. H. Smith tr. S. Sturluson Heimskringla (1990) vi. 114 Eyvind made a poem about all the men of Iceland and they rewarded him in such a way that every bonder gave him a scot-penny [Icel. skattpening] amounting to three pennies of weighed silver. < as lemmas |
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