In plural. Gold coins. Obsolete.

(a) a coin made of gold, or containing a percentage of gold; (b) (as a mass noun) such coins collectively; currency or money consisting of gold coins.

cant. Usually in plural. A gold coin; (also more generally) gold, money. Cf. red ruddock n. at red, adj. n.compounds 1f(c)(i). Obsolete.

a gold coin; spec. (in form red 'un) a sovereign.

Usually in plural. A gold coin; (also more generally) gold, money. Obsolete. rare.

Chiefly figurative (humorous). the pestle of a lark: the leg of a lark; something very small, a trifle. pestle of a portigue: a small piece of gold…

a gold coin.

slang. A gold coin. Cf. yellow boy, n. Obsolete.

A gold coin, esp. a guinea or a sovereign.

slang. A gold coin; usually in plural, coin, money. Obsolete.

Gold; a gold coin. Also: any metal coin.

(a) a gold coin (now rare); (b) a gold ornament, pendant, etc.

= spanker, n.1 1.

a gold coin (cf. shiner, n.).

gold coin.

slang (chiefly Australian). Any of various gold coins, as a guinea, a sovereign, or a half-sovereign. Cf. canary bird, n. 3. Obsolete.