Atchison
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English
Alternative forms
- (surname): Atcheson
Etymology
The coin is named after Atkinson, a coin minter in the beginning of James VI reign.
Proper noun
Atchison
- A surname.
- A city, the county seat of Atchison County, Kansas, United States, named after David Rice Atchison.
Derived terms
- Atchison County
- Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway (ATSF, better known as the Santa Fe)
Noun
Atchison (plural Atchisons)
- (historical) A former Scottish copper coin, coated with silver, worth four bodles, eight Scots pennies, and two-thirds of an English penny.
- 1683, George Meriton, A York-ſhire Dialogue, In its pure Natural Dialect As it is now commonly Spoken in the North parts of York-ſshire, York: John White, Richard Lambert, page 12:
- There not worth an Atchiſon; nor Twenty ſike.