subs. (thieves’ and vagrants’).—A franc; or tenpence English. [From the Italian dieci soldi.]—See SALTEE.
1861. C. READE, The Cloister and the Hearth, ch. lv. What with my crippledom and thy piety, a wheeling of thy poor old dad, we’ll bleed the bumpkins of a DACHA-SALTEE.
