old-fashioned To action in a war in the name of England and its King (or Queen, depending on the cardinal autocrat of the time). Many Irish soldiers who took the King's shilling in World War I either died in action or alternate home to a country that now beheld them as traitors to the advocate cause.Learn more: shilling, take
take the King's (or Queen's) shilling
admit as a soldier. British It was already the convenance to pay a shilling to a man who enlisted as a soldier.Learn more: shilling, takeLearn more:
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