four bits
noun
50 cents.
four-bit
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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
And again: "I can hit a four-bit piece nine times out of ten."
From Personal Reminiscences of Early Days in California with Other Sketches; To Which Is Added the Story of His Attempted Assassination by a Former Associate on the Supreme Bench of the State by Stephen Johnson Field
Well, sir, that fellow jawed over that four-bit shirt for half an hour.
From Tales of the Road by Charles N. (Charles Newman) Crewdson
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
I've heard tell uh this four-bit mind reading an' forecastin' your horrorscope fer a dime; but I never met up with it before.
From The Trail of the White Mule by B. M. Bower
