单词 | schelling |
释义 | schellingn. Obsolete exc. Historical. A silver coin formerly current in the Low Countries, of the value of 6 stivers or from 5d. to 7½d. sterling. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > foreign coins > [noun] > Dutch coins > silver guilder1480 gulden15.. schelling1535 skilling1700 1535 G. Joye Apol. Tindale sig. C.vv In al I had for my labour but .xiiij. shylyngis flemesshe. 1692 London Gaz. No. 2829/3 After which time such Skellings are only to pass for five Stivers and a half each. 1693 J. Dryden tr. Persius Satires v. 71 And prize a hundred Zeno's just as much As a clipt Sixpence, or a Schilling Dutch. 1700 S. L. tr. C. Frick Relation Voy. in tr. C. Frick & C. Schweitzer Relation Two Voy. E.-Indies 6 The Cash-keeper paid us..three Dutch Skillings every day while we stayed on shoar. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Schelling, a Coin in Holland and Flanders, containing 12 Groots or 6 Stivers and equal to 6⅔ of our English Money. 1785 G. Forster tr. A. Sparrman Voy. Cape Good Hope (1786) I. 68 Eighteen China oranges I had bought in Paarl for one skelling Dutch. 1790 Coll. Voy. round World IV. i. 1252 At the cape..it was discovered that a number of counterfeit schellings..had been circulated. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1535 |
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