Scot

Noun

 * 1)  A local tax, paid originally to the lord or ruler and later to a sheriff.

Thesaurus
account, admission, admission fee, allowance, anchorage, assessment, bill, blackmail, blood money, brokerage, carfare, cellarage, charge, charges, cover charge, demand, dockage, dues, emolument, entrance fee, exaction, exactment, fare, fee, footing, hire, hush money, initiation fee, license fee, mileage, pilotage, portage, reckoning, retainer, retaining fee, salvage, scot and lot, shot, stipend, storage, toll, towage, tribute, wharfage

Etymology
From skot:, later influenced by  escot: (Modern écot:), itself of Germanic origin. Compare shot.

Derived terms

 * scotale
 * scot and lot
 * scot-free

Related terms

 * escot
 * shot
 * shout

Anagrams

 * cost
 * cots, COTS

Noun

 * 1) shot, act of shooting
 * 2) missile, shot
 * 3) darting, rapid movement

Alternative forms

 * scēot

Etymology
From Germanic *skot-. Cognate with Old Frisian skot, Old Saxon sīlscot, Old High German scoz (German Schoß), Old Norse skot.

Descendants

 * English: shot