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for gelt
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Gelt \Gelt\, n. [See 1st Geld.]
Trubute, tax. [Obs.]
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All these the king granted unto them . . . free from
all gelts and payments, in a most full and ample
manner. --Fuller.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Gelt \Gelt\, n. [See Gelt, v. t.]
A gelding. [Obs.] --Mortimer.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Gelt \Gelt\, n.
Gilding; tinsel. [Obs.] --Spenser.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) :
gelt
n 1: informal terms for money [syn: boodle, bread,
cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale,
lettuce, lolly, lucre, loot, moolah, pelf,
scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :
35 Moby Thesaurus words for "gelt":
blunt, boodle, brass, bread, bucks, cabbage, chips, dinero, dough,
filthy lucre, gilt, grease, green, green stuff, jack, kale,
lettuce, loot, lucre, mazuma, moolah, mopus, oil of palms,
ointment, oof, ooftish, rhino, rocks, shekels, simoleons,
spondulics, sugar, the needful, tin, wampum
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