shilling

as indecoy

Synonyms for shilling

verb bait, entrap

Antonyms for shilling

Word Origin & History

Old English scilling, a coin consisting of a varying number of pence (on the continent, a common scale was 12 pennies to a shilling, 20 shillings to a pound), from Proto-Germanic *skillingoz- (cf. Old Saxon, Danish, Swedish, Old Frisian, Old High German skilling, Old Norse skillingr, Dutch schelling, German Schilling, Gothic skilliggs).

Some etymologists trace this to the root *skell- "to resound, to ring," and others to the root *(s)kel- (1) "to cut" (perhaps via sense of "shield" from resemblance or as a device on coins; see shield (n.)). The ending may represent the diminutive suffix -ling, or Germanic -ing "fractional part" (cf. farthing). Old Church Slavonic skulezi, Polish szelang, Spanish escalin, French schelling, Italian scellino are loan-words from Germanic.

Example Sentences for shilling

Ay, that is a thirteen, plase your honour; all as one as an English shilling.

I threw them a shilling: the hay-rope was withdrawn, and at last we went on.

Kirkwood slapped a shilling down on the ticket-window ledge.

A shilling of it is in case of accidents—the mare casting a shoe, or the like of that.

The price of a mass varies from a shilling to one pound sterling.

To make a strong paste for paper, take two large spoonfuls of fine flour, and as much pounded rosin as will lie upon a shilling.

"Thank you, my boy," said Mr. Lavender, producing a shilling.

He'd be a real benefactor; but he goes on selling them at a shilling the pound for all that.

Of course, a halfpenny a night sounds nothing, but think of a shilling a month!

Then she had given him a shilling and said she would trouble him no more.