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• Shilling — This article is about coinage. For other uses, see shilling (disambiguation). A 1933 UK shilling The shilling is a unit of currency used in some current and former British Commonwealth countries. The word shilling comes from scilling, an… …   Wikipedia

• Shilling — Shil ling, n. [OE. shilling, schilling, AS. scilling; akin to D. schelling, OS. & OHG. scilling, G. schilling, Sw. & Dan. skilling, Icel. skillingr, Goth. skilliggs, and perh. to OHG. scellan to sound, G. schallen.] 1. A silver coin, and money of …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• shilling — [shil′iŋ] n. [ME schilling < OE scylling, akin to Ger schilling < Gmc * skildling, prob. < * skild (see SHIELD) + * ling, LING1] 1. a) a former monetary unit of the United Kingdom, equal to 1/ 20 of a pound or 12 pence b) a cupronickel… …   English World dictionary

• Shilling (British coin) — In the United Kingdom, a shilling was a coin used from the reign of Henry VII until decimalisation in 1971. Before decimalisation there were twenty shillings to the pound and twelve pence to the shilling, and thus 240 pence to the pound. At… …   Wikipedia

• Shilling (Irish coin) — IrishCoinInfobox EN NAME = Shilling GA NAME = Scilling DESIGN = Bull The shilling coin was a pre decimal coin worth 1/20th of an Irish pound. The coin featured the bull on the obverse side.The original minting of the coin from 1928 until 1942… …   Wikipedia

• shilling — n. 1 hist. a former British coin and monetary unit worth one twentieth of a pound or twelve pence. 2 a monetary unit in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda. Phrases and idioms: shilling mark hist. = SOLIDUS. take the King s (or Queen s) shilling hist.… …   Useful english dictionary

• shilling — noun /ˈʃɪlɪŋ/ a) A coin formerly used in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Malta, Australia, New Zealand and many other Commonwealth countries. Worth twelve old pence or one twentieth of a …   Wiktionary

• Shilling — Unit of weight equal to one twentieth of a pound; later the silver coin worth 12d, 20 of which made £1. Cf. Solidus …   Dictionary of Medieval Terms and Phrases

• York shilling — Shilling Shil ling, n. [OE. shilling, schilling, AS. scilling; akin to D. schelling, OS. & OHG. scilling, G. schilling, Sw. & Dan. skilling, Icel. skillingr, Goth. skilliggs, and perh. to OHG. scellan to sound, G. schallen.] 1. A silver coin, and …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Carroll H. Shilling — Horseracing personalities infobox name = Carroll Shilling caption = occupation = Jockey birthplace = Texas, United States birth date = 1885 death date = 1950 career wins = 969 race = Aqueduct Handicap (1904, 1909) Grand Union Hotel Stakes (1907)… …   Wikipedia

• Forty Shilling Freeholders — were a group of (mostly) landowners who had the Parliamentary franchise to vote in county constituencies in various parts of the British Isles. In England it was the only such qualification from 1430 until 1832. It remained one of the… …   Wikipedia