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An obsolete English dialect and slang term for a half Penny. See Flag.

In an old poem of 1547 entitled The Hye Way to the Spyttel House occurs the line:

"Docked the dell for a coper make."

Sir Walter Scott, in his novel Woodstock (xxxvi.) has, "I take it; for a make to a million."


Source: Frey's Dictionary (American Journal of Numismatics, Vol. 50, 1916)
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