A coin between a nickel and a dime.
1834. He rewarded [him] with a thrip (the smallest silver coin known in the southern currency—the five cent issue excepted).—W. G. Simms, ‘Guy Rivers,’ ii. 73 (1837).
1839. I left it [the stage], sir, to save my last thrip, sir.—Yale Lit. Mag., iv. 120 (Jan.).
1845. He set back the bottle, and dropped the thrip into the drawer.—W. T. Thompson, ‘Chronicles of Pineville,’ p. 180 (Phila.).
1848. “How much do you ax for ’em [those matches]?” ses I. “Eight boxes for a levy,” ses he. They was jest the same kind of boxes that we git two for a thrip in Georgia.—W. T. Thompson, ‘Major Jones’s Sketches of Travel,’ p. 76 (Phila.).
1848. When the grand caraven was in Pineville last year, the manager charged a thrip extra for admittin people when they was feedin the annimals.—Id., p. 79.
