siller
Americannoun
noun
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silver
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money
adjective
Etymology
Origin of siller
a Scot variant of silver
Example Sentences
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She has garred build a bonny ship; It's a' covered o'er wi' pearl; And at every needle-tack was in't There hung a siller bell.
From The Romantic Scottish Ballads: Their Epoch and Authorship by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)
The horse fair Annet rade upon, He amblit like the wind; Wi' siller he was shod before, Wi' burning gowd behind.
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume II (of 8) by Various
Then she laughed and said: "When I am Lady Wynton, I may find many other ways for the spending of that hundred thousand of lying siller."
From A Reconstructed Marriage by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston
The horse young Waters rade upon, It cost him hunders nine;10 For he was siller shod before, And gowd graith had behin'.
From English and Scottish Ballads (volume 3 of 8) by Various
An' noo to face the kirkward mile: The guidman's hat o' dacent style, The blackit shoon, we noo maun fyle As white's the miller: A waefü' peety tae, to spile The warth o' siller.
From A Lowden Sabbath Morn by Stevenson, Robert Louis
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