(UK, legal, obsolete, or, historical) A tax formerly paid to the kings of England for every hide of land.
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(historical) The total area of land, measured in hides.
: In the case of the towns, to which the reckoning by hides could not be applied, the Danegeld or hidage was probably compounded for, and such composition represents no doubt the later talliage.4 In the ninth year of Henry II. the Danege…
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