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单词 half-eagle
释义 half-eagle
A gold coin of the United States, of the value of 5 dollars: see eagle 5.
1786in Amer. Museum (1789) II. 182/2 There shall be two gold coins; one..equal to five dollars, to be stamped in like manner [to the eagle], and to be called a half-eagle.a1824R. Patterson cited in Worcester 1846. 1841 Congress. Globe 30 July 269/2 It was an open declaration of war upon the half eagles, the gold currency... This gold, in half eagles, was too good for us.1852Knickerbocker XL. 323 He was about to contribute a half eagle to the funds.1868O. W. Holmes Guard. Angel iii.
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