coin counter

An arrangement by which the proce of hand counting, piece by piece, is dispensed with. A shovel or tray has shallow depre ions of a given length, width, and depth to hold so many coins of a given kind. The coins are shoveled into the tray, which is skillfully agitated until the coins have snugly occupied all the spaces. The re mainder are brushed off, and the complete quota is thrown into a scale to verify the count by weighing. *coin-made, *coyne-made, a. Mercenary or simoniacal. IMG:content-0127.png:[blocks in formation] 1. Ord. Lang.: The act of winding or gathering into a ring or series of rings. 2. Naut .: A sort of serpentine winding of a cable or other rope, that it may occupy a small space in the ship. Each of the windings of this sort is called a fake , and one range of fakes upon the same line is called a tier . There are generally from five to seven fakes in a tier, and three or four tiers in the whole length of the cable. The smaller ropes employed about the sails are coiled upon cleats at sea, to prevent their being entangled. (Smyth.) *coil-on, *coylon, s. [O. Fr. coillon , couillon ; Ital. coglione ; Lat. coleus . A testicle. "I wold I had thy coylons in myn hond." Chaucer: C. Т., 14,367.