1 currency a shilling, money in general la19-; hisotrical.
2 silver 19. etymology: sense 1 pre-decimalization (1971), a coin worth twelve old pennies; slang or Cant also; now rare in Modern English; Shelta has a form midyog ‘a shilling’ which may be connected; sense 1 attested by Galloway, Perthshire and Argyleshire Tinkler-Gypsies, and collected by EMcC/PS; sense 2 collected by Rev John Baird from Kirk Yetholm Gypsies which may be a development from Scots siller ‘silver coin, cash, money in general’ note:
Lexicon Balatronicum (1811) defines half a hog as ‘a sixpence’, Grose and Egan (1823) define it as a ‘shilling’.