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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
head money en · NOUN
Meanings
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(obsolete, uncountable) Poll tax.
to be taxt by the poul, to be scons't our head money, our tuppences in their Chaunlerly Shop-book of Easter
1641 May, John Milton, Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England: And the Causes that hitherto have Hindred it. […], [London]: […] Thomas Vnderhill, →OCLC:
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(obsolete, uncountable) A reward paid per person captured at sea etc.
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(obsolete, uncountable) A reward for a proscribed outlaw's head.