To estimate, sometimes to reduce to little or nothing, the money a man has.
1847. You see Mr. Porter, I thot I’d size her pile.—T. B. Thorpe, ‘The Big Bear of Arkansas: Billy Warwick’s Courtship and Wedding,’ p. 94 (Phila.).
1854. The jury shortly after returned into court with a verdict which “sized their pile.”—J. G. Baldwin, ‘Flush Times,’ p. 113.
