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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In the tobacco trade, a device for moistening the tobacco leaf. See case, transitive verb, 2, and *casing.
  • noun One who cases.

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  • noun slang, UK A crown, a five shilling coin.

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Possibly from Yiddish  (keser, "crown"), from Hebrew  (keter)

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