King's mark

American  

noun

1. one of the marks composing a hallmark, consisting of the head of a leopard, formerly a crowned head.

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Example Sentences

Here the surveyor comes again, like a bad penny as he is, bearing the King’s mark, but a base counterfeit none the less.

From A Hero of Ticonderoga by Robinson, Rowland E.

What made me think of it now is that the King’s mark was an arrer, an’ it’s an arrer that’s on that there log I’m showin’ ye.

From Rose O' the River by Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith

What made me think of it now is that the King's mark was an arrer, an' it's an arrer that's on that there log I'm showin' ye.

From Homespun Tales by Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith

And without stopping to think about it or to look closely at the wolf, who had the King's mark upon his ear, the fellow shot his arrow straight as a string.

From The Book of Saints and Friendly Beasts by Cory, Fanny Y.

Go 'way back to the very first—back over a hundred years, when the trouble began by the surveyors puttin' the King's mark on all the pine-trees over two feet in diameter.

From Roger Davis, Loyalist by Baird, Frank