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Halfpence

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Plural of halfpenny.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. an English coin worth half a penny; -- no longer minted.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Plural form of halfpenny.
  • Word Usage
    "It will scarcely be credited, that this dreadful description, when stripped of its exaggerations, meant no more than that Ireland might lose about six thousand a year during Wood's patent for coining halfpence!"
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