shekel

1. (slang) Money.Examples: "Her gownlet cost five hundred beans; / Her furs, four figures in a row; / Her hat removed from papa's jeans / A hundred shekels more or so."; "[…] after the 1887-9 campaign was the great refuge of the destitute who, as they could not hope to rake in a breast-full of medals and decorations, expected, at any rate, to amass a good few shekels."; "The mob had filched anything that might earn them a shekel or two."slang

2. (historical) An ancient unit of weight equivalent to one-fiftieth of a mina.Examples: "And it came to pass, as the camels had done drinking, that the man took a golden earring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold;"historical