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dacha-saltee

dacha-saltee noun: tenpence.

Noun

dacha-saltee

  1. (obsolete, thieves' cant) Tenpence.
    • […] and what with my crippledom and thy piety, a-wheeling of thy poor old dad, we'll bleed the bumpkins of a dacha-saltee.1861, Charles Reade, The Cloister and the Hearth; or, Maid, Wife, and Widow. A Matter-of-Fact Romance., New York, N.Y.: Rudd & Carleton; London: Trübner & Co.

Origin of dacha-saltee

Compare Italian dieci soldi.

Questions about dacha-saltee

What does dacha-saltee mean?
Dacha-saltee means tenpence.
What part of speech is dacha-saltee?
Dacha-saltee is a noun.

Words near dacha-saltee in the dictionary

  1. dacetuzumab
  2. Dacey
  3. Daceys
  4. Daceyville
  5. dacha
  6. dacha-saltee
  7. Dachang
  8. dachas
  9. Dachau
  10. dachel
  11. Dachen

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