half-a-dollar

British  

noun

1. slang another name for a half-crown

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Example Sentences

Jist half-a-dollar a quarter--part in cash, part in produce.

From Life in the Clearings versus the Bush by Moodie, Susanna

His bargain of a cleared farm is probably some worn-out dilapidated location not worth half-a-dollar an acre till hundreds have been spent on it.'

From Cedar Creek From the Shanty to the Settlement by Walshe, Elizabeth Hely

I'm not a-goin' to give half-a-dollar to go in here.

From Life in the Clearings versus the Bush by Moodie, Susanna

So he took out half-a-dollar, and threw it into his hat, saying, 'There's something for you.'

From Tales from the Fjeld A Second Series of Popular Tales by Asbj?rnsen, P. Chr.

Once we hired Johnnie to work for us at the rate of half-a-dollar a day.

From Bunch Grass A Chronicle of Life on a Cattle Ranch by Vachell, Horace Annesley