sheep-silver

noun

Money once paid by tenants for exemption from the service of washing the lord's sheep.

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Meanings

nounsheep-silver (uncountable)
  1. historicaluncountableMoney once paid by tenants for exemption from the service of washing the lord's sheep.
  2. obsoleteuncountableMica.

    These were rough arches made of a transparent rock, incrusted with sheepsilver and rock spar, and other bright stones.

    1890, Joseph Jacobs, “Childe Rowland”, in English Fairy Tales, page 121
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