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

  • 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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