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ˈmoney-box
A box in which money is kept; esp. a closed box into which savings or contributions are dropped through a slit.
1585Higins tr. Junius' Nomencl. 249 Capsella fictilis..a mony box made of potters clay, wherein boyes put their mony to keepe, such as they hang in shops, &c. towards Christmas. 1611Cotgr., Cachemaille, a money box. 1755Johnson, Moneybox, a till. 1848Dickens Dombey xviii, The juggler's wife is active with the money-box in another quarter of the town. 1858O. W. Holmes Aut. Breakf-t. vii. (1895) 169 The brains also are shaken up [by riding] like coppers in a money-box. |