horse blanket
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.99 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
2
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A blanket placed underneath the saddle of a horse.
noun
Paper money consisting of large-sized notes or bills, printed from 1861 to 1928.
American usage; Slang
Example Sentences
- "They used to take a big horse-blanket and sit on the grass a little to the left of the lower end, where there is a dip in the ground, and where the occupied graves stop short and the ready-made ones are not ready."
- "And then he had those great big, what they used to call "horse blankets." You know those bills? Yeah, that's what the young man gave him."
- "Right now, I am teaching my daughter about "horse blankets" and that "money used to be this big". Who knows? Maybe she will tell her kids how she can remember when dollars didn't have holes for the blind..."
- "https://web.archive.org/web/20070409012812/http://www.brokencc.com/buyfaq1.php Typically your small size (the same physical size as regular money, as opposed to the old horse blankets) silver certificate is worth about 5% more than face."