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sheep-silver

sheep-silver noun: money once paid by tenants for exemption from the service of washing the lord's sheep.

Noun

sheep-silver (uncountable)

  1. (historical) Money once paid by tenants for exemption from the service of washing the lord's sheep.
  2. (obsolete) Mica.
    • 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

Questions about sheep-silver

What does sheep-silver mean?
Sheep-silver means money once paid by tenants for exemption from the service of washing the lord's sheep.
What part of speech is sheep-silver?
Sheep-silver is a noun.

Words near sheep-silver in the dictionary

  1. sheep-like
  2. sheep-run
  3. sheep-runs
  4. sheep-shagger
  5. sheep-shaggers
  6. sheep-silver
  7. sheep-skin
  8. sheep-skins
  9. sheep-split
  10. sheep-splits
  11. sheepadoodle

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