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n.
a person who supported the retention of York currency as a standard of exchange.
1835  Hold, hold, says one of the Yorkites; if you lose the odd copper in breaking the York shilling to-day, you gain it to-morrow; what is fair for one side is fair for the other; if we take the odd copper, we give it in return.