单词 | mill money |
释义 | > as lemmasmill money mill money n. now historical money coined in the mill and press, not struck with the hammer (cf. mill sixpence n., mill-tester n.). ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > [noun] > milled and pressed coin mill moneya1625 a1625 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Captaine i. iii, in Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Gg/2 Only to live to make their children scourge-sticks, And hoord up mill-money. 1718 in G. Lamoine Charges to Grand Jury (1992) 101 As to Mill-money, its High Treason to make or assist in making Puncheons, Edgers, or other Tools, for the coyning of Mill'd-money. 1931 C. Oman Coinage of Eng. xxvii. 279 The first ‘mill money’ had been struck in Paris ten years before (1552) for King Henry II. < as lemmas |
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