reap-silver

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n. Money paid by feudal serfs or tenants to their lord as a commutation for their services in reaping his crops.

n. historical Money anciently paid by servile tenants to their lord, in lieu of the customary service of reaping his corn or grain.

“The Lakenheath eels cease to breed squabbles between human beings; the penny of _reap-silver_ to explode into the streets the Female Chartism of St. Edmundsbury.”

Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII.
“_reap-silver_ to explode into the streets the Female Chartism of”

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