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Define hide (verb) and get synonyms. What is hide (verb)? hide (verb) meaning, pronunciation and more by Macmillan Dictionary
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hide something from someone: I wanted to hide his present from him until his birthday.
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Hide (unit) - Relationship to other terms. 1  A hide was usually made up of four virgates although exceptionally Sussex had eight virgates to the hide.
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The already existing system of assessment of land in hides was utilised to raise the geld, which was levied at a stated rate per hide (e.g. two shillings per hide). Subsequently the same system was used for general taxation and the geld was raised as required.
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Original meaning. The Anglo-Saxon word for a hide was hid (or its synonym hiwisc). Both words are believed to be derived from the same root hiwan, which meant family.
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At the time the value of the hide was approximating twenty shillings a year, and the price of an ox was two shillings. Thus the holder of a hide had a tax burden equivalent to three of his oxen and close upon one-third of the annual value of his land. A more normal rate was 2 shillings on each hide.
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Hide (unit) The hide was an English unit of land measurement originally intended to represent the amount of land sufficient to support a household. It was traditionally taken to be 120 acres, but was in fact a measure of value and tax assessment, including obligations for food-rent, maintenance and repair of bridges and fortifications, manpower for the army, and the geld land tax. The hide's method of calculation is now obscure: different properties with the same hidage could vary greatly in extent even in
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Definition and synonyms of hide from the online English dictionary from Macmillan Publishers Limited.
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Other documents of the period show the same equivalence and it is clear that the word hide originally signified land sufficient for the support of a peasant and his household or of a 'family', which may have had an extended meaning.
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hides meaning
A hide was usually made up of four virgates although exceptionally Sussex had eight virgates to the hide.