Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A British silver coin worth five shillings, or the fourth part of a pound sterling. See
crown , n., 13. - noun A strap in a bridle, head-stall, or halter, which passes over the head of the horse and is secured by buckles to the cheek-straps.
- noun The crown-sheet or top plate of the fire-box of an internally fired boiler.
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Examples
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But saving ae crown-piece, he'd naething else beside,
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A sou, sometimes a crown-piece, a stone, a skeleton, a bleeding body, sometimes a spectre folded in four like a sheet of paper in a portfolio, sometimes nothing.
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Moreover, Oliver Giles, a man of seventeen, one of the dancers, who was enamoured of his partner, a fair girl of thirty-three rolling years, had recklessly handed a new crown-piece to the musicians, as a bribe to keep going as long as they had muscle and wind.
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The former blubbered so, that Mr. Warrington was quite touched by his fidelity, and gave him a crown-piece to go to supper with the poor girl, who turned out to be his sweetheart.
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A speck was seen rapidly descending from the heavens; it grew to be as big as a crown-piece, then as a partridge, then as a tea-kettle, and flop! down fell a magnificent heron to the ground, flooring poor Max in its fall.
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A speck was seen rapidly descending from the heavens; it grew to be as big as a crown-piece, then as a partridge, then as a tea-kettle, and flop! down fell a magnificent heron to the ground, flooring poor Max in its fall.
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Here is a crown-piece for them to drink my health, and thanks for their good-will.
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‘Remarkable case of a person who swallowed a crown-piece, sir?’
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The white cloth now appeared the size of a crown-piece.
A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries
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Then, added my father, making use of the argument Ad Crumenam, — I will lay twenty guineas to a single crown-piece (which will serve to give away to Obadiah when he gets back) that this same Stevinus was some engineer or other — or has wrote something or other, either directly or indirectly, upon the science of fortification.
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