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drink-silver, -siller Sc.
= prec.; a perquisite. Also fig.
1467Sc. Acts Jas. III (1814) 87 (Jam.) And at na drinksiluer be tane be the maister nor his doaris. 1489Treasurer's Bks. 10 July in Tytler Hist. Scot. (1864) II. 396 Given to the gunners to drink-silver, when they cartit Monss..18 shillings. 1637Rutherford Lett. (1862) I. 297, I cannot get a house in this town wherein to leave drink⁓silver in my Master's name. 1808–25Jamieson, Drink-siller is still the vulgar designation. |