| 单词 | small coin |
| 释义 | > as lemmassmall coin small coin n. coins of low value collectively; also figurative. Cf. small change n. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > [noun] > small coins collectively single money1591 small coin1606 change1633 small change1679 grocery1721 smash1821 loose change1827 shrapnel1974 1606 R. Knolles tr. J. Bodin Six Bks. Common-weale vi. vi. 775 Neratius..commaunded a slaue, which carried a bagge full of such small coyne after him, to pay vnto him whome hee had so strucken twentie fiue of those small brasen peeces. 1650 True manner Crowning Charles Second King Scotl. (single sheet) He did..scatter many handfuls of silver in smal coyne. 1746 T. Salmon Mod. Gazetteer at Maldiva Islands Cowries..serve instead of small coin, in many parts of India. 1879 G. Meredith Egoist xxxiii If we are not to be beloved, spare us the small coin of compliment on character. 1900 T. Wilkins & B. S. Wilkins Moral Culture as Sci. ii. iv. 102 Kindness is the small coin of life, making pleasant and convenient all the little interchanges of service which are necessary between man and man. 1982 P. Manning Slavery, Colonialism, & Econ. Growth in Dahomey vi. 161 To obtain additional supplies of small coin. < as lemmas |
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