sceatt

plural sceatts

1. alternativeAlternative form of sceat.

   The penny-gavel in Kent was once exacted in half-sceatts, as has been already pointed out, giving to the acre in Kent a value of five deniers.

   1872, E. William Robertson, Historical Essays in Connexion with the Land, the Church &c, page 133

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   For if, according to the view of Schmid and others, the sceatt were to be taken as a farthing or quarter of a sceatt, the correspondence of Kentish with Continental wergelds and payments pro fredo would be altogether destroyed.

   1902, Frederic Seebohm, Tribal Custom in Anglo-Saxon Law