Coin vs Caroon - What's the difference?
coin | caroon |
(money) A piece of currency, usually metallic and in the shape of a disc, but sometimes polygonal, or with a hole in the middle.
* 1883: (Robert Louis Stevenson), (Treasure Island)
A token used in a special establishment like a casino (also called a chip).
(figurative) That which serves for payment or recompense.
* Hammond
One of the suits of minor arcana in tarot, or a card of that suit.
A quoin; a corner or external angle; a wedge.
To make of a definite fineness, and convert into coins, as a mass of metal; to mint; to manufacture.
To make or fabricate; to invent; to originate.
* Dryden
To acquire rapidly, as money; to make.
* John Locke
A crown coin; its value, 5 shillings.
:1859 ,
::Half-a-crown'' is known as an (alderman), (half a bull), (half a tusheroon), and a (madza caroon); whilst a ''crown'' piece, or ''five shillings , may be called either a (bull), or a (caroon), or a (cartwheel), or a (coachwheel), or a (thick-un), or a (tusheroon).
As a proper noun coin
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a crown coin; its value, 5 shillings.coin
English
Noun
(en noun)- ...the coins were of all countries and sizes - doubloons, and louis d'ors, and guineas, and pieces of eight...
- The loss of present advantage to flesh and blood is repaid in a nobler coin .
Derived terms
* coinageVerb
(en verb)- to coin''' silver dollars; to '''coin a medal
- Over the last century the advance in science has led to many new words being coined .
- Some tale, some new pretense, he daily coined , / To soothe his sister and delude her mind.
- Tenants cannot coin rent just at quarter day.
