Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A token issued by the keeper of a tavern for convenience of change. Taverntokens were largely issued in England in the seventeenth century. See
token , 6.
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Examples
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Drunk, sir! you hear not me say so: perhaps he swallowed a tavern-token, or some such device, sir, I have nothing to do withal.
Every Man in His Humor Ben Jonson 1605
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