bank-bill

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

A bank-note.


Neither Johnson nor the other lexicographers have the term bank-note, though they all have bank-bill, which Johnson defines, "a note for money laid up in a bank, at the sight of which the money is paid."

In the United States these are invariably called bank-bills, while in England this term is obsolete, and bank-notes universally used.