brass

1) A colloquial word for certain copper coins, or money more generally.

1647 Bramall wife denyed a brasse shilling which shee gave mee the last tyme I was there, Wortley

1699 having some meal with her in a poke, with 3 pennyworth of brass she desired to lay it by which was consented to, Hepworth

1725 gave him three pence in brass and a peck of apples, Ilkley.

dates 1647 1699 1725

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