| 单词 | four bits |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfour bits b. Applied in the Southern states of N. America, in the West Indies, etc., to small silver coins forming fractions of the Spanish dollar, or (when these are obsolete) to their value in current money. Now usu. applied in the U.S. to a unit of value equivalent to an eighth of a dollar; used only in even multiples, as four bits, six bits.In the eighteenth century the bit was generally the old Mexican real = 1/ 8 of a dollar or about 61/ 2d. sterling; later values assigned are a half pistareen or 1/ 10 of a dollar, 1/ 16 of a dollar, and (in some colonies) the value of 11/ 2d. sterling. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > foreign coins > [noun] > Caribbean coins hog moneyc1625 bit1683 macaroni1808 quattie1859 society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > foreign coins > [noun] > North American coins > U.S. quarter dollar1615 bit1683 quarter1776 cent1782 dollar1785 dime1786 eagle1786 half-dollar1786 half-eagle1786 sharpshin1804 picayune1805 caser1825 pic1839 double eagle1849 slug1851 hog1859 pine tree money1859 martin bita1884 meter1940 1683 in Colonial Rec. Pennsylvania (1852) I. 85 Their Abuse to ye Governmt, in Quining of Spanish Bitts and Boston money. 1730 J. Southall Treat. Buggs 8, I would give him..a Bit, (a Piece of Spanish Money, there current at Seven-pence Half-Penny). 1776 J. Cook Jrnl. 30 July (1967) III. i. 10 The Meat is..sold for half a bit (3 pence sterling a pound). c1782 T. Jefferson Autobiogr. in Wks. (1859) I. App. 165 The tenth [of the dollar] will be precisely the Spanish bit, or half-pistareen. 1836 E. Howard Rattlin, the Reefer III. v. 59, I..gave my sable nurses a handful of bits each. 1873 T. A. Barry & B. A. Patten Men & Mem. San Francisco xiii. 132 Two bits for a cup of coffee; two bits for a piece of pie; or if hunger and economy were to be considered, two doughnuts for a quarter of a dollar. 1883 Cent. Mag. 27 29 With six bits in his pocket and an axe upon his shoulder. 1909 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Bit..now, usually, the sum of 12½ cents (generally in the phrases two bits, four bits, six bits). 1938 D. Runyon Furthermore xiv. 281 She has..a smile like six bits. 1939 J. Steinbeck Grapes of Wrath xvi. 224 If you wanta pull in here an' camp it'll cost you four bits. < as lemmas |
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