Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An early Anglo-Saxon coin.
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- noun numismatics A small Anglo-Saxon coin, especially one made of silver.
Etymologies
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Examples
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And one sceat out of every silver mark really would go toward carrying out the fund's dedicated purpose.
Petty Pewter Gods Cook, Glen 1995
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Tate is one of the wealthiest men in TunFaire and one of the tightest with a sceat.
Dread Brass Shadows Cook, Glen 1990
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They produce extremely hungry and unpleasant fellows, some of whom will turn you inside out for a copper sceat.
Dread Brass Shadows Cook, Glen 1990
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Knight's _Political Dictionary_, and on Cyric-sceat.
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When numbers are given, sceat appears to be left out, cf. 2196, 2995 (see þūsend).
Beowulf Robert Sharp 1879
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When numbers are given, sceat appears to be left out, cf. 2196, 2995 (see þûsend).
Beowulf Robert Sharp 1879
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Playmate was effusive with gratitude but didn’t bring one copper sceat to defray the costs of my efforts to salvage his madonna’s useless infant.
Angry Lead Skies Cook, Glen 2002
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-- Comp.: beadu -, heaðo-scearp. scearu, st. f., _division, body, troop_: in comp. folc-scearu; _that is decided_ or _determined_, in gūð-scearu (_overthrow_?), 1214. sceat, st. m., _money_; also _unit of value in appraising_ (cf. Rieger in
Beowulf Robert Sharp 1879
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-- Comp.: beadu -, heaðo-scearp. scearu, st. f., _division, body, troop_: in comp. folc-scearu; _that is decided_ or _determined_, in gûð-scearu (_overthrow_?), 1214. sceat, st. m., _money_; also _unit of value in appraising_ (cf. Rieger in
Beowulf Robert Sharp 1879
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