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单词 loon-slatt
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loon-slattn.

Etymology: Perhaps < loon n.1 + slatt (slang) half-crown.
slang. Obsolete. rare. Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
A name for the Scottish merk, the value of which in the 17th cent. was 13½d, the proverbial amount of the hangman's fee. (Cf. quot. 1785 at hangman n. a.)
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1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Loon-slatt, a Thirteen Pence half Penny.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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