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Definition of Shinplasters
1. shinplaster [n] - See also: shinplaster
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shinplasters
Literary usage of Shinplasters
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reminiscences of a War-time Statesman and Diplomat, 1830-1915 by Frederick William Seward (1916)
"1837' The Panic of 1837—shinplasters. My first lesson in finance came in 1837.
... These I was told were " shinplasters." They seemed to pass from hand to ..."
2. Reminiscences of a War-time Statesman and Diplomat, 1830-1915 by Frederick William Seward (1916)
"1837- The Panic of 1837—shinplasters. My first lesson in finance came in 1837.
... These I was told were "shinplasters." They seemed to pass from hand to ..."
3. A History of the Greenbacks: With Special Reference to the Economic by Wesley Clair Mitchell (1903)
""shinplasters" and Fractional Currency: Disappearance of Silver Coin — Issues
of "shinplasters"—Postage Currency — Fractional Currency. ..."
4. Old Time Notes of Pennsylvania: A Connected and Chronological Record of the by Alexander Kelly McClure (1905)
"... against Steam Railways — Building the Cumberland Valley Railroad— shinplasters
Issued to Financier It — The First Pennsylvania Railroad Charter Prepared ..."
5. The Lyon Campaign in Missouri: Being a History of the First Iowa Infantry by Eugene Fitch Ware (1907)
"shinplasters."—Fractional Currency. The churches in those days were small and
feebly attended. The denominations seemed to be numerous enough, ..."
6. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"All I have to say is that [he] has a very strange idea of shinplasters. ...
1852 [The merchants] wood flood this valley with shinplasters, and take away our ..."
7. A Resource of War--The Credit of the Government Made Immediately Available by Elbridge Gerry Spaulding (1869)
"Corporations, individuals and firms commenced issuing shinplasters to supply the
deficiency. It soon became apparent that unless some action was taken to ..."
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