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ˈpocket-piece
1. A piece of money carried in the pocket as a charm, a ‘lucky’ coin; often a coin which is for some reason not current, or is damaged or spurious.
1706Lond. Gaz. No. 4209/4 Lost.., a Silver Snuff-box,..with some other Silver Things, Pocket-Pieces, and Money. 1726Adv. Capt. R. Boyle (1768) 8 He soon knew the Piece to be his Wife's,..being the same he had some time ago given her for a Pocket-piece. 1837Dickens Pickw. xlv, He got two doubtful shillin's and sixpenn'orth o' pocket-pieces for a good half-crown. 1905Sir J. Evans in Numismatic Chron. iii. 312 The milled sixpences [of Q. Eliz. 1561–75]..were [not improbably] frequently treasured as pocket-pieces.
2. The socket or cavity on each side of a sash-frame in which the weights run: see pocket n. 9 a.
1901J. Black's Illustr. Carp. & Build., Home Handicr. 48 We now work along the ‘pulley-stile’ for a transverse cut, which marks the extremity of the ‘pocket-piece’, or receptacle for the weights. |