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English
Etymology
From silver + -ling?
Noun
silverling (plural silverlings)
- Shekel or small silvern coin of little value.
c. 1589–1590 (date written), Christopher Marlo, edited by Tho Heywood, The Famous Tragedy of the Rich Iew of Malta. , London: I B for Nicholas Vavasour, , published 1633, →OCLC, Act I:As for those Samnites, and the men of Uz,
That bought my Spanish oils and wines of Greece,
Here have I purs'd their paltry silverlings.
Fie, what a trouble 'tis to count this trash!
- Baccharis halimifolia, a shrub of the aster family.