sheep-silver en · NOUN
Meanings
- (historical, uncountable) Money once paid by tenants for exemption from the service of washing the lord's sheep.
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(obsolete, uncountable) 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: