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twyhyndman

noun

  1. A man worth two hundred shillings in wergeld.

    historical

    In this computation a twelfhyndman was valued at six ceorls or twyhyndmen, because the weregild of a twelfhyndman was equal to the weregilds of six ceorls.

Where it comes from

Learned borrowing from Old English twihynde / twyhynde man(n).

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry twyhyndman (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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