释义 |
half-dime A silver coin of the United States, value 5 cents, issued from 1792 to 1873 (from 1866 of copper and nickel), popularly called a nickel.
1796T. Twining Trav. Amer. (1894) 170 The silver coins, of dollars, half and quarter ditto, dimes or tenths, and half-dimes. |