pound Scots
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of pound Scots
First recorded in 1605–15
Example Sentences
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The prices given are in Scots currency, the pound Scots being worth about twenty pence sterling: Maii, 1651 It. to Andro Carnduff for 4 pund of Tobacco £1.
From The Social History of Smoking by Apperson, George Latimer
"I'd gie a pound Scots to ken wha chaps," said Mungo, deaf to every humour.
From Doom Castle by Munro, Neil
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