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Meaning of coachwheel | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. A cartwheel, the wheel of a horse-drawn coach
  2. A crown coin; its value, 5 shillings.
    UK, historical, obsolete, slang

Examples

“Half-a-crown is known as an alderman, half a bull, half a tusheroon, and a madza caroon; whilst a crown piece, or five shillings, may be called either a bull, or a caroon, or a cartwheel, or a coachwheel, or a thick-un, or a tusheroon.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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