单词 | king's shilling |
释义 | king's shillingnoun(until 1879) a shilling given a recruit in the British army to bind his enlistment contract. Also called, when a queen was sovereign, queen's shilling. Words nearby king's shillingking's ransom, King's Regulations, King's Remembrancer, Kings River, king's scout, king's shilling, King's speech, Kingston, Kingston upon Hull, Kingston upon Thames, Kingstown Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 British Dictionary definitions for king's shillingking's shilling when the sovereign was female queen's shillingnoun(until 1879) a shilling paid to new recruits to the British army take the king's shilling British archaic to enlist in the army Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 |
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