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sceat
(shat),USA pronunciation n.
- Currencya silver Anglo-Saxon coin of the 7th and 8th centuries, sometimes including an amount of gold.
- cognate with Old Saxon skat, Old High German scaz (German Schatz) treasure, tribute. See scat5 learned borrowing (18th century) of Old English sceat, scætt
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