Definitions
an English coin worth one twentieth of a pound
Word origin
From Middle English schilling, shilling, from Old English sċilling, from Proto-Germanic *skillingaz, equivalent to skill + -ing. Doublet of scalding and schilling.
Used in a sentence
“The smaller silver coins of Europe, such as the solidus or German shilling, the mark, and others never found their way east in any quantity on account of their small size and value.”
“And without that profit an employee with my salary can make only a poor living and not be able to save one Danish shilling.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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