queens-shilling
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| king's shilling or (when the sovereign was female) queen's shilling | |
| —n | |
| 1. | (until 1879) a shilling paid to new recruits to the British army |
| 2. | archaic (Brit) take the king's shilling to enlist in the army |
| queen's shilling or (when the sovereign was female) queen's shilling | |
| —n | |
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Queens-shilling
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| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| queen's shilling or (when the sovereign was male) king's shilling | |
| —n | |
| 1. | (until 1879) a shilling paid to new recruits to the British army |
| 2. | archaic (Brit) take the queen's shilling to enlist in the army |
| king's shilling or (when the sovereign was male) king's shilling | |
| —n | |
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