press money

noun

, British Obsolete.

1. prest money.

Word History and Origins

Origin of press money¹

First recorded in 1550–60

Example Sentences

The same stewardess who let the large white woman gawk at us and press money into Fern’s hand wasn’t so quick to hand us over to the woman I said was our mother.

From Literature

Among the gifts, according to the Associated Press: money, free vacation travel and truckloads of granite for Stone Age LLC, a business Nagin and his sons owned.

From Washington Post

They might one day press money into your palm.

From New York Times

So, taking a cavalier from a man's hand, she performed the exercise with such dexterity that they wondered, whereupon she said—"Press no man, but give me press money and I will go myself."

From Project Gutenberg

Meg's Fellow Servant pressed; her Usage of the Constable; and of her taking Press Money to go to Boulogne.

From Project Gutenberg