"paul" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1836, Mariana Starke, Travels in Europe and in the Island of Sicily, page 569",
          "text": "Shoes and boots are, generally speaking, better made at Florence than in any other part of Italy: the usual price charged for the former is eight pauls the pair; and for the latter from thirty to forty pauls.",
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      "homophone": "pall"
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          "ref": "1850, The Mechanic's Magazine, Register, Journal and Gazette, page 517",
          "text": "As soon as the horse again begins to move, the paul will take into the teeth of the ratchet-wheel, and restore to the fly-wheel its original speed.",
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