shillingsworth

plural shillingsworths · alternative shillingworth

1. historicalAn 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!'

   1869, R[ichard] D[oddridge] Blackmore, chapter XI, in Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Sampson Low, Son, & Marston, […], →OCLC

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   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 […]

   1873, The Fortnightly Review, volume 20, page 507

   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.

   1914, The Cambridge Magazine, volume 4, page 121