| 释义 |
‖ tomin|toˈmin|
Also 6 -yne, 7 -ine.
[Sp.]
A Spanish measure of weight for silver, equivalent to 9.26 grains; also, b. in Spain and Spanish America, the name of various small silver coins.
‘In Bolivia, a coin equal to one-fifth of the Bolivian dollar, i.e. about eightpence; in Paraguay, a coin worth 2 reales or nearly fivepence’ (Cent. Dict., Suppl.).
[1599Minsheu Span. Dict., Tomin, a kinde of weight weighing the quantity of a Reall in Spaine, neere sixpence English.] 1600Hakluyt Voy. III. 454 Fiue Tomynes, that is, fiue Royals of plate, which is iust two shillings and sixe pence. 1604E. G[rimstone] tr. D'Acosta's Hist. Indies iv. xxii. 272 In Potozi it is readily worth foure peeces, and five Tomines.
†c. As the name of a weight used by jewellers.
1658Phillips, Tomin, a certain weight among Jewellers, weighing about three Carrats. 1717Blount's Law Dict., Tomin, a Weight so called amongst Goldsmiths and Jewellers, and is twelve Grains. |