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Gelt   Listen
noun
Gelt  n.  Trubute, tax. (Obs.) "All these the king granted unto them... free from all gelts and payments, in a most full and ample manner."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Gelt" Quotes from Famous Books



... by a man's father, and do him good with him! He cannot but think most virtuously, both of me, and the sender, sure, that make the careful costermonger of him in our familiar epistles. Well, if he read this with patience I'll be gelt, and troll ballads for master John Trundle yonder, the rest of my mortality. It is true, and likely, my father may have as much patience as another man, for he takes much physic; and oft taking physic makes a man very patient. But would your packet, master Wellbred, ...
— Every Man In His Humor - (The Anglicized Edition) • Ben Jonson



Words linked to "Gelt" :   dinero, moolah, simoleons, lettuce, boodle, cabbage, bread, scratch, clams, wampum, kale, shekels, sugar, loot, money, lolly



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