What is a piece of copper of the shape of a horseshoe, used as money by certain tribes of the west coast of Africa. Simmonds called?
manilla — A piece of copper of the shape of a horseshoe, used as money by certain tribes of the west coast of Africa. Simmonds. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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