Definition of Obang

1. an old Japanese coin [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Obang

oatlage
oatlike
oatmeal
oatmeal-tomato paste agar
oatmeal cookie
oatmeal drink
oatmeals
oats
oaty
oaves
ob-
oba
obambulate
obambulation
obambulations
obang (current term)
obangs
obas
obb
obbligati
obbligato
obbligatos
obcompressed
obconic
obconical
obcordate
obdeltoid
obdiplostemonous
obdiplostemony
obdormition

Literary usage of Obang

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1888)
"The obang-obang mountain runs north and south, and is half a mile in length. There are seven entrances to the vaults from the top of the ..."

2. The Popular Science Monthly (1889)
"The obang-obang Mountain runs north and south, and is half a mile in length. There are seven entrances to the vaults from the top of the range, all situated ..."

3. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1889)
"The obang-obang Mountain runs north and south, and is half a mile in length. There are seven entrances to the vaults from the top of the range, all situated ..."

4. Proceedings by Zoological Society of London (1888)
"THE obang obang CAVES are situated on the ... The " obang obang" range, which contains the caves of that name, runs about north and south and is half a mile ..."

5. Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and by Henry Yule, Arthur Coke Burnell, William Crooke (1903)
"obang, s. Jap. Oh'o-ban, lit. 'greater division. ... The largest gold coin known in the obang. a most inconvenient circulating medium, as it is nearly six ..."

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