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Fourpence

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Four´pence
n.1.A British silver coin, worth four pence; a groat.
2.A name formerly given in New England to the Spanish half real, a silver coin worth six and a quarter cents.
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Noun1.Fourpencefourpence - a former English silver coin worth four pennies
groat
coin - a flat metal piece (usually a disc) used as money
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I fished out fourpence, and put his cross on my own neck, and I could see by his face that he was as pleased as he could be at the thought that he had succeeded in cheating a foolish gentleman, and away he went to drink the value of his cross.
The Idiot by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor View in context
Pumblechook then put me through my pence-table from "twelve pence make one shilling," up to "forty pence make three and fourpence," and then triumphantly demanded, as if he had done for me, "Now
Great Expectations by Dickens, Charles View in context
For me the district institutions simply mean the liability to pay fourpence halfpenny for every three acres, to drive into the town, sleep with bugs, and listen to all sorts of idiocy and loathsomeness, and self-interest offers me no inducement.
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