| 单词 |
schelling |
| 释义 |
▪ I. ‖ schelling Obs. exc. Hist.
(ˈskɛlɪŋ, in Du. ˈsxɛlɪŋ)
Also 6 shylyng, 7 skilling, schilling, 7, 8 skelling.
[Du.: see shilling. Cf. schilling1, skilling.]
A silver coin formerly current in the Low Countries, of the value of 6 stivers or from 5d. to 7½d. sterling.
1535Joye Apol. Tindale (Arb.) 22 In al I had for my labour but xiiij shylyngis flemesshe. 1692Lond. Gaz. No. 2829/3 After which time such Skellings are only to pass for five Stivers and a half each. 1693Dryden Persius vi. (1697) 485 And prize a hundred Zeno's just as much As a clipt Sixpence, or a Schilling Dutch. 1700S. L. tr. Fryke's Voy. E. Ind. 6 The Cash-keeper paid us..three Dutch Skillings every day while we stayed on shoar. 1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Schelling, a Coin in Holland and Flanders, containing 12 Groots or 6 Stivers and equal to 62/3 of our English Money. 1772–84Cook Voy. (1790) 1252 At the Cape..it was discovered that a number of counterfeit schellings..had been circulated. 1785G. Forster tr. Sparrman's Voy. Cape G. Hope (1786) I. 68 Eighteen China oranges I had bought in Paarl for one skelling Dutch.
▪ II. schelling
see schilling1. |
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