Definition of "crown-piece" [crown-piece]

• A British silver coin worth five shillings, or the fourth part of a pound sterling. See crown, n., 13. (noun)
• A strap in a bridle, head-stall, or halter, which passes over the head of the horse and is secured by buckles to the cheek-straps. (noun)
• The crown-sheet or top plate of the fire-box of an internally fired boiler. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "But saving ae crown-piece, he'd naething else beside,"
• "A sou, sometimes a crown-piece, a stone, a skeleton, a bleeding body, sometimes a spectre folded in four like a sheet of paper in a portfolio, sometimes nothing."
• "A speck was seen rapidly descending from the heavens; it grew to be as big as a crown-piece, then as a partridge, then as a tea-kettle, and flop! down fell a magnificent heron to the ground, flooring poor Max in its fall."