four bits
noun
50 cents.
four-bit
-
a word derived from
four bits.
Example Sentences
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As Uncle Dan and the other men started tossing in four-bit pieces, it got heavier and heavier.
From Great Jehoshaphat and Gully Dirt! by Jewell Ellen Smith
I next sprung Pansy for a four-bit feed - It was a giddy tax, but what care I?
From The Love Sonnets of a Car Conductor by Wallace Irwin
Deal 'em up, Spots; you an' me is goin' to pry these two bum gamblers loose from their four-bit pieces real pronto by the good ol' road of high, low, jack, an' the game.
From Man to Man by Jackson Gregory
They dropped four-bit pieces on the dusty road, and riding up to them at full speed clutched them from the ground in some mysterious way that was perfectly wonderful.
From A Summer in a Canyon by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
Peets gives this saddle-tinted longhorn a four-bit piece, an' he tells this yarn.
From How The Raven Died 1902, From "Wolfville Nights" by Alfred Henry Lewis
