shillingsworth

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   An object or quantity that can be purchased for a shilling.

   • 'Only look at his jacket, mother!' cried Annie; 'and a shillingsworth gone from his small-clothes!'
   • In the voltaic battery, from a shillingsworth of chemical force we can obtain nearly twelve-pennyworth of electricity; in an electroplating vat, from the twelve-penceworth of electricity we get a shillingsworth of chemical force […]
   • It is a pleasure to handle these tasteful little Volumes, whose covers are not smeared with that unwelcome gilt which so often repels one in the case of similar shillingsworths.

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