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Definition of Tickey
1. a former South African coin [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tickey
Literary usage of Tickey
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Annual Report of the American Institute of the City of New York (1854)
"... George tickey, John Randall, Jr., Gen. Chandler, John W. Chambers, Judge Van
Wyck and others—between thirty and forty in all. ..."
2. A History of Southern Missouri and Northern Arkansas: Being an Account of by William Monks (1907)
"When the constable came in reach, he knocked him down, came walking around, and
remarked that no tickey officer could arrest him. The judge then ordered the ..."
3. The History of the Orange Free State by Martin James Boon (1885)
"... he thinks he does his part if he buys a tickey-worth of sweets to 'eat while at
... and a tickey for the plate on retiring irom|the place of conventual ..."
4. The History of the Orange Free State by Martin James Boon (1885)
"... he thinks he does his part if he buys a tickey-worth of sweets to eat while at
... and a tickey for the plate on retiring from the place of conventual ..."
5. A Trip to South Africa by James Salter-Whiter (1892)
"Any penny article in England is worth threepence here, and this coin is locally
termed a " tickey." Should a purchase at any store amount to an odd penny in ..."
6. With the Guard's Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back by Edward P. Lowry (1902)
"A threepenny piece is there called "a tickey," and till the troops arrived that
was the lowest coin in use. An Orange Free Stater scorned to look at a penny ..."
7. Minutes of Evidence, with Index: Presented to Both Houses of Parliament by by Custom Tariff Commission, Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) (1908)
"I should think the opportunity was taken then to put the tickey beer on a basis
on which it caused less loss to the brewery than previously. 9668. ..."
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