half-a-dollar

British  

noun

1. slang another name for a half-crown

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half-a-dollar

One workman can make in a day 300 or 400 shingles, which are sold on the spot for half-a-dollar per 100.

From Travels in the Interior of North America, Part I, (Being Chapters I-XV of the London Edition, 1843) Early Western Travels, 1748-1846, Volume XXII by Alexander Philipp Maximilian

Cowhides pay half-a-dollar each, sheep and goat's skins four pice, and ghee about one per cent.

From First Footsteps in East Africa by Sir Richard Francis Burton

I reckon every one of those beauties is worth half-a-dollar.

From Bart Stirling's Road to Success Or, The Young Express Agent by Allen Chapman

A half-a-dollar is equal to an English florin; but no coin was handed over—four sticks ot tobacco costing the trader about ten cents, was the equivalent.

From "Five-Head" Creek; and Fish Drugging In The Pacific 1901 by Louis Becke

"I'll take you for half-a-dollar, as you are, if you'll give me the right to sell enlargements as a prairie study."

From The Mistress of Bonaventure by Harold Bindloss

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