geld

By 1086 the number of houses had decreased to 100, and of these 20 were in such a wretched condition that they could not pay geld.

One-third of the geld was paid to Geoffrey de Coutances, bishop of Exeter, who threw up the earthworks of the castle.

Well, she's heir of all this isle (for I will geld monster).

Come, knave, it were a good deed to geld thee, by Cock's bones!

One great purpose seems to mould both its form and its substance; it is a geld-book.