half bull

English

Noun

half bull (plural half bulls)

  1. (slang, obsolete) A coin worth half a crown (two shilling and sixpence; 2s 6d).
    • 1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 60:
      "And would you believe it," he added, with a sudden change of attitude, "I've done fifty-two of those Dam' little tracts, and what d'you reckon I get for them? Half a crown apiece - a miserable half bull," he said, thrusting the insignificance of that sum upon the curate's attention with the stem of his pipe.
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