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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.
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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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Synonym
Words with the same meaning
ha'penny
halfpenny