Brewer's: Ciric-Sceat

or Church Scot. An ecclesiastical due, paid chiefly in corn, in the reign of Canute, etc., on St. Martin's Day.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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