SHILLING

Shilling

The shilling is a unit of currency formerly used in Britain and former British Commonwealth countries. The word shilling comes from scilling, an accounting term that dates back to Anglo-Saxon times where it was deemed to be the value of a cow in Kent or a sheep elsewhere. The word is thought to derive from the base skell-, "to ring/resound" and the diminutive suffix -ling. The slang term for a shilling as a currency unit was a "bob".

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shilling

Noun

  1. A coin formerly used in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Malta, Australia, New Zealand and many other Commonwealth countries.
    The shilling was worth twelve old pence, or one twentieth of a pound sterling.
  2. The currency of Kenya, Somalia, Tanzania and Uganda.
  3. A currency in the United States, differing in value between states.
  4. The Spanish real, formerly having the value of one eighth of a dollar.

Verb

shilling



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