Definition of "shoful"

shoful

noun
countable and uncountable, plural shofuls
1. (obsolete, UK, slang, countable) A Hansom cab.
2. (obsolete, UK, slang, uncountable) Counterfeit money.
  Quotations
  To discover […] how the honest poor are compelled to hob-and-nob with the “shoful pitcher” and the “gun,” it is necessary to visit the vast nursery-grounds of crime.
  1863, Blanchard Jerrold, Signals of Distress in Refuges and Homes of Charity (etc.), page 2