单词 | pound scots |
释义 | > as lemmaspound Scots c. In full pound Scots. A former Scottish monetary unit. Now historical.Originally of the same value as the pound sterling, at the time of the Union of the Crowns in 1603 it was equal to one twelfth of that amount, being divided into 20 shillings each of the value of an English penny. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > standards and values of currencies > [noun] > specific monetary units or units of account > specific Scottish poundc1400 shilling great1474 c1400 Brut (Rawl. B. 171) 197 (MED) Þe Abbot of Scone..wolde ȝeue him a þousand pound. 1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xviii. 521 Lang eftir syne ransonyt wes he For tuenty thousand pund to pay. 1545 in J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1877) 1st Ser. I. 19 Twa hundreith pundis usuall money of this realm. 1617 F. Moryson Itinerary i. 283 The Scots of old called 20 English pence a pound, as wee in England call 20 siluer shillings a pound. 1678 in M. Wood Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1950) X. 331 Ane hundered pound Scots gratuitie for his preaching and preying to the prisoners in the tolbuith. 1706 Atholl MSS in Sc. National Dict. at Mart Grant me to have receaved..the soume of One hundered fyftie four pound Scotts money and that as the Martinmas Martsilver. 1790 R. Burns Tam o' Shanter 177 in Poems & Songs (1968) II. 563 That sark she coft for her wee Nannie, Wi' twa pund Scots, ('twas a' her riches). 1814 W. Scott Waverley I. xviii. 279 ‘Donald would not lower a farthing of a thousand punds’—‘The devil!’ ‘Punds Scottish, ye shall understand.’ 1887 G. G. Green Gordonhaven ix Jist only lat a chiel hae a hunner powin or twa i' the bank. 1921 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 10 Apr. 4/4 Blatter pointed out the significant fact that what was known as a pound Scots was worth one and eight pence. 1982 Jrnl. Econ. Hist. 42 449 There are historical errors.., for instance..the failure at times to distinguish between the pound Scots and the pound Sterling. < as lemmas |
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