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English
Noun
head money (uncountable)
- (obsolete) Poll tax.
1641 May, John Milton, Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England: And the Cavvses that hitherto have Hindred it; republished as Will Taliaferro Hale, editor, Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England (Yale Studies in English; LIV), New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1916, →OCLC:to be taxt by the poul, to be scons't our head money, our tuppences in their Chaunlerly Shop-book of Easter
- (obsolete) A reward paid per person captured at sea etc.
- (obsolete) A reward for a proscribed outlaw's head.