See Also: ship money(encyclopedia)
ship-money(dictionary)
Tight money or dear money(finance)
Ship(medicine)
ship(3)(dictionary)
ship(2)(dictionary)
ship(encyclopedia)
ship(dictionary)
SHIP(law)
sailing ship(dictionary)

ship-money (iou)



ship-money noun. Hist. M17.
[from SHIP noun + MONEY noun.]
In England, a tax formerly levied in wartime on ports and maritime towns, cities, and counties (later also, inland counties) to provide ships for the monarch's service, abolished in 1640.