shillingsworth

1. (historical) An object or quantity that can be purchased for a shilling.Examples: "'Only look at his jacket, mother!' cried Annie; 'and a shillingsworth gone from his small-clothes!'"; "In the voltaic battery, from a shillingsworth of chemical force we can obtain nearly twelve-pennyworth of electricity; in an electroplating vat, from the twelve-penceworth of electricity we get a shillingsworth of chemical force […]"; "It is a pleasure to handle these tasteful little Volumes, whose covers are not smeared with that unwelcome gilt which so often repels one in the case of similar shillingsworths."historical