"were gild" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "were gilds",
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        "plural"
      ]
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "word": "wergeld"
        }
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1912, Frederic Jesup Stimson, Popular Law-making, →ISBN:",
          "text": "But these modern statutes in Ohio and the Southern States, making towns responsible in a definite sum to the kin of a murdered man, are the exact re-enactment of the early Anglo-Saxon law; except that the blood damages -- the were gild--- were in those days put upon the neighbors or the kin of the enemy.",
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        "Alternative form of wergeld"
      ],
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          "wergeld",
          "wergeld#English"
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  ],
  "word": "were gild"
}

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "were gilds",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "word": "wergeld"
        }
      ],
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        "English countable nouns",
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        {
          "ref": "1912, Frederic Jesup Stimson, Popular Law-making, →ISBN:",
          "text": "But these modern statutes in Ohio and the Southern States, making towns responsible in a definite sum to the kin of a murdered man, are the exact re-enactment of the early Anglo-Saxon law; except that the blood damages -- the were gild--- were in those days put upon the neighbors or the kin of the enemy.",
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        }
      ],
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        "Alternative form of wergeld"
      ],
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          "wergeld#English"
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  ],
  "word": "were gild"
}