er 14:

"Government Public Notice.--The Quarter Dollars, or `Dumps,'
struck from the centre of the Spanish Dollar, and issued by
His Excellency Governor Macquarie, in the year 1813, at One
Shilling and Threepence each, will be exchanged for Treasury
Bills at Par, or Sterling money."

1823. `Sydney Gazette,' Jan. ['Century']:

"The small colonial coin denominated dumps have all been called
in. If the dollar passes current for five shillings the dump
lays claim to fifteen pence value still in silver money."

1827. P. Cunningham, `Two Years in New South Wales,' vol. i.
p. 44

"He only solicits the loan of a `dump,' on pretence of treating
his sick gin to a cup of tea."

Ibid. p. 225:

"The genuine name of an Australian coin, in value
1<i>s</i>. 3<i>d</i>."

1852. J. West, `History of Tasmania,' vol. ii. p. 141:

"Tattered promissory notes, of small amount and doubtful
parentage, fluttered about the colony; dumps, struck out from
dollars, were imitated by a coin prepared without requiring
much mechanical ingenuity."

1870. T. H. Braim, `New Homes,' c. iii. p. 131:

"The Spanish dollar was much used. A circular piece was struck
out of the centre about the size of a shilling, and it was
called a `dump.'"

1879. W. J. Barry, `Up and Down,' p. 5:

"The coin current in those days (1829) consisted of ring-
dollars and dumps, the dump being the centre of the dollar
punched out to represent a smaller currency."

1893. `The Daily News' (London), May 11, p. 4:

"The metallic currency was then [1819-25] chiefly Spanish
dollars, at that time and before and afterwards the most widely
disseminated coin in the world, and they had the current value
of 5<i>s</i>. But there were too few of them, and therefore
the centre of them was cut out and circulated under the name of
`dumps' at 1<i>s</i>. 3<i>d</i>. each, the remainder of the
coin--called by way of a pun, `holy dollars'--still retaining
its currency value of 5<i>s</i>."

<hw>Dump</hw>, <i>v</i>. to press closely; applied to wool.
Bales are often marked "not to be dumped."

1872. C. H. Eden, `My Wife and I in Queensland,' p. 98:

"The great object of packing so close is to save carriage
through the country, for however well you may do it, it is
always re-pressed, or `dumped,' as it is called, by hydraulic
pressure on its arrival in port, the force being so great as to
crush two bales into one."

1875. R. and F. Hill, `What we saw in Australia,' p.