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The Language of the Scottish Traveller: A Dictionary
By Pauline Cairns Speitel
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half bull
noun,
currency
half a crown
19-20; historical
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bull
etymology:
pre-decimalisation (1971) a coin worth two shillings and sixpence; Cant; and Galloway Tinkler-Gypsies
note:
Grose and Egan (1823) attest
half bull
‘half a crown’.