healsfang

词形变化

healsfangs 复数 healsfangs

别名

halsfang

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    In Anglo-Saxon law, a fine or mulct of uncertain character.

    历史

词源

Learned borrowing from Old English healsfang (“fine prescribed in substitution for capital and other punishments”, literally “neck-taking", or "taking by the neck”), equivalent to halse + fang. Cognate with Icelandic hálsfang (“embracing”).

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