Gield
Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - gield
According to the Old English Dictionary:
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- gield
- n. A payment of money, recompense, substitute, offering, worship, service, a heathen deity :-- Sáwlum to gielde for a recompense to their souls, Exon. 23 b; Th. 66, 30; Cri. 1079. Wæs Abeles gield was Abel's substitute, Cd. 55; Th. 67, 32; Gen. 1109: 5; Th. 7, 5; Gen. 101: 47; Th. 60, 5; Gen. 977: Exon. 67 b; Th. 251, 17; Jul. 146: 58 a; Th. 253, 3; Jul. 174.