sheep-silver

noun — 2 senses

sheep-silver

noun
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:

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