Example sentences for: ten-shilling

How can you use “ten-shilling” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Cockneys also used to call ten-shilling notes gennets , the origin of which I have been unable to trace.

  • The terms nicker for a one-pound note and half a nicker for a ten-shilling note are New Zealand expressions that arrived in Britain, and they were also widely used by counterfeiters in the underworld.


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