Gelt

//ɡɛlt//

"Gelt" in a Sentence (11 examples)

Hanukkah gelt is pocket money that it is customary to give to children on Hanukkah.

She […] like a ghastly Gelt whose wits are reaved, / Ran forth in hast with hideous outcry […]

spay'd Gelts

That nothynge had / There of theyr awne / Neyther gelt nor pawne.

It amounts to not above 12000 Fr. Rhenish, yearly, in bare gelt.

The is no Gelt to be got.

I saw him at the house of my parents; I in my earliest youth, he approaching to fourscore. He was on his way to collect the Dominie's gelt; for the Dutch always took care the stipend to the minister should be competent, that so he never might be straitened 'to desire a gift.'

"And yet," said Captain Dalgetty, "my second and greatest difficulty remains behind; for, although I hold it a mean and sordid thing for a soldado to have nothing in his mouth but pay and gelt, like the base cullions, the German lanz-knechts, whom I mentioned before; […] yet, ex contrario, a soldier's pay being the counterpart of his engagement of service, it becomes a wise and considerate cavalier to consider what remuneration he is to receive for his service, […]

Have bought some farm land in Rio Grande Valley which should bring in a sizeable bundle of gelts come cotton picking time.

The miser, a-seeking lost gelt, / The doughboy, awaiting the battle, / May possibly know how I felt / While the long years dragged by as the dealer / As slow as the slowest of dubs, / Stuck out the last helping of tickets / 'Till I lifted—the Bullet of Clubs!

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All these the king granted unto them […] free from all gelts [guilds] and payments, in a most full and ample manner.

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