shilling
noun
- a former monetary unit of the United Kingdom, equal to of a pound or 12 pence
- a cupronickel coin worth one shilling: coinage discontinued in 1971
- a former monetary unit of various other countries in or formerly in the Commonwealth, equal to of a pound or 12 pence
- the basic monetary unit of:
- Kenya
- Somalia
- Tanzania
- Uganda
- any of several coins of colonial America
See shilling in American Heritage Dictionary 4
(shĭlˈĭng)
noun- Abbr. s. A coin used in the United Kingdom, worth one twentieth of a pound, 5 new pence, or 12 old pence prior to 1971.
- See Table at currency.
- Printing A virgule.
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