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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Ay, I ken fine the auld man is chief owner, and weel he likes his siller.
From The Twa Miss Dawsons by Robertson, Margaret M. (Margaret Murray)
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
"My love gae me a siller wand, 'Twas to rule ower a' Scotland;10 And she gae me a gay gowd ring, The virtue o't was above a' thing."
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume IV 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
Four and twanty siller bells65 Wer a' tyed till his mane, And yae tift o' the norland wind, They tinkled ane by ane.
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume II (of 8) by Various
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