poll-bill
[f. poll-money), or poll n.1 + bill n.3 3.]
A bill for levying a poll-tax.
| 1641 in Rushw. Hist. Coll. iii. (1692) I. 304 Sir Simon d'Ewes his Speech concerning the Assessing of the Peers in the Poll-Bill. 1666 Marvell Corr. Wks. (Grosart) II. 191 Forain excise, home excise, a poll-bill.., have been all more or lesse disputed. 1761–2 Hume Hist. Eng. (1806) IV. lxiii. 680 Sums..levied..by a poll-bill and new assessments. |