batzes
batzes is the plural of batz.
Meaning of batz
Noun
batz (plural batzes or batzen)
- A batzen (former small copper coin from Germany and Switzerland).
- In old times, if a Coniston peasant had any business at Ulverstone, he walked to Ulverstone; spent nothing but shoe-leather on the road, drank at the streams, and if he spent a couple of batz when he got to Ulverstone, "it was the end of the world." But now, he would never think of doing such a...1874 June 6, John Ruskin, “Letter XLIV”, in Fors Clavigera. Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain, volume IV, Orpington, Kent: George Allen, →OCLC, pages 166–167
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- Batzes is the plural of batz.
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