| 释义 |
† polling-penny, -pence, n. Obs.
[f. polling vbl. n. + penny, pence.]
Money paid or exacted as poll-tax; hence, esp. in pl., a poll-tax.
1555Bradford Supplic. Q. Eliz. F ij, Wil englishmen..suffer to be poled and pilled moste miserably, in payeng continually suche polingpence, and intollerable tollages? 1591Troub. Raigne K. John (1611) 42 Neuer an Italian priest of them all, shall eyther haue tythe, tole, or polling penny out of England. 1592Greene Upst. Courtier C j b, Yea rather than thy brauery should faile begge powling pence for the verye smoke that coms out of poore mens chimnies. 1607Markham Caval. iii. (1617) 35 To get vnhonest polling pence to their owne purses. |