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单词 schelling
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schellingn.

Brit. /ˈʃɛlɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈʃɛlɪŋ/
Forms: Also 1500s shylyng, 1600s skilling, schilling, 1600s, 1700s skelling.
Etymology: Dutch: see shilling n. Compare schilling n.1, skilling n.2 N.E.D. (1910) gives the pronunciation as (ske·liŋ, in Du. sχe·liŋ) /ˈskɛlɪŋ/, in Du. /ˈsxɛlɪŋ/.
Obsolete exc. Historical.
A silver coin formerly current in the Low Countries, of the value of 6 stivers or from 5d. to 7½d. sterling.
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guilder1480
gulden15..
schelling1535
skilling1700
1535 G. Joye Apol. Tindale sig. C.vv In al I had for my labour but .xiiij. shylyngis flemesshe.
1692 London Gaz. No. 2829/3 After which time such Skellings are only to pass for five Stivers and a half each.
1693 J. Dryden tr. Persius Satires v. 71 And prize a hundred Zeno's just as much As a clipt Sixpence, or a Schilling Dutch.
1700 S. L. tr. C. Frick Relation Voy. in tr. C. Frick & C. Schweitzer Relation Two Voy. E.-Indies 6 The Cash-keeper paid us..three Dutch Skillings every day while we stayed on shoar.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Schelling, a Coin in Holland and Flanders, containing 12 Groots or 6 Stivers and equal to 6⅔ of our English Money.
1785 G. Forster tr. A. Sparrman Voy. Cape Good Hope (1786) I. 68 Eighteen China oranges I had bought in Paarl for one skelling Dutch.
1790 Coll. Voy. round World IV. i. 1252 At the cape..it was discovered that a number of counterfeit schellings..had been circulated.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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