Definition of Skatt

1. a blow [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Skatt

skates
skates (fish)
skateway
skateways
skating
skating-rink
skating on thin ice
skating rink
skatings
skatol
skatole
skatoles
skatols
skatoxyl
skats
skatt (current term)
skatts
skaws
skayles
skaz
skean
skeane
skeanes
skeans
skear
skeared
skearier
skeariest
skearing
skears

Literary usage of Skatt

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Oppressions of the Sixteenth Century in the Islands of Orkney and Zetland by David Balfour (1859)
"As population increased, each Tun or subdivision thereof paid for its enlarged area of cultivation a Malt skatt also, marking at once the advance from ..."

2. Transactions of the Philological Society by Philological Society (Great Britain). (1867)
"In the Danish and Swedish there is only one form (Dan. skat, Sw. skatt) for both treasure and tribute. The great difficulty is to decide how far, ..."

3. A History of the County of Inverness (Mainland) by James Cameron Lees (1897)
"3 An examination of the Shetland and Orkney rentals or skatt-rolls shows that the udal lands in Shetland were, for the assessment of skatt, valued at their ..."

4. Orkney and Shetland Miscellany of the Viking Club by Viking Society for Northern Research (1908)
"As there were no Earldom lands in Papey, the Rentals only give the skatt paid. ... £o 12 8 =£29 12 o =£29 The skatt paid in Shetland bears no relation to ..."

5. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland by Society of Antiquaries of Scotland (1903)
"1 Papa Stronsay paid no skatt, and probably ... ie, Kingsland, and formed part of the landed estate of the Earldom. It paid skatt, and was not ..."

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