Boat building, one of the oldest branches of engineering, is concerned with constructing the hulls of boats and, for sailboats, the masts, spars and rigging.
Perhaps the most common is the term bucks as a reference for US Dollars. Other common slang terms for dollars include cash, dough, moolah and smackers.. There are various other slang terms for money as well, some of which are general terms and others that are specific to certain denominations of money.
But the practice is less exotic than it appears. It follows a long history of wife-paying strategies with their own vocabulary, including allowance, pin money, egg money, spending money, pocket money, or dole.. And each payment has generated moral controversy.