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单词 poll penny
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poll pennyn.

Forms: see poll n.1 and penny n.
Origin: Apparently formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: poll n.1, penny n.
Etymology: Apparently < poll n.1 + penny n.
Scottish. Obsolete. rare.
A payment or offering made at a memorial service or funeral.
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1489 in W. E. K. Rankin Parish Church of Holy Trinity, St. Andrews (1955) 48 [One penny was to be offered by the procurator of the Choir as] poll-penny [on the day of the obit, and he was to distribute two pennyworth of bread to the poor].
1538 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1905) VI. 423 Item, to the powpenny deliverit to David Lindesay, Lyoun herald, ane croune of wecht..xxs.
1542 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1908) VIII. 181 Gevin to my lord governour to offer in ane poll penny, ane rois nobill.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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