Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A sum of money formerly paid by tenants for release from the service of washing the lord's sheep.
- noun Mica. Also
sheep's-silver .
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Examples
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Muscovy glass, called sheep-silver in Scotland, and the light flickered as if from a fire behind it.
The Princess and the Goblin George MacDonald 1864
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