Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The sum of nine pennies.
- noun In New England, a Spanish silver coin, the real (of Mexican plate), about equal in value to 9 pence of New England currency, or 12½ cents. The word is still occasionally used in reckoning.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An old English silver coin, worth nine pence.
- noun A New England name for the Spanish real, a coin formerly current in the United States, as valued at twelve and a half cents.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete, UK A former British silver
coin , worth nineold pennies . - noun obsolete, UK Nine old pennies.
- noun obsolete, New England A Spanish
real , valued at twelve and a halfcents .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a coin worth nine pennies
Etymologies
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Examples
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They have now been reduced to ninepence a word to Australia or eighteen cents.
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"Shilling shockers" are sold at ninepence, which is as comical as selling "tenpenny nails" at sixpence.
Without Prejudice Israel Zangwill 1895
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In one of the most curious and amusing of these pieces Lewis and his ministers are introduced, expressing the greatest alarm lest England should make herself the richest country in the world by the simple expedient of calling ninepence a shilling, and confidently predicting that, if the old standard were maintained, there would be another revolution.
The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4 Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay 1829
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Andover schoolmates was taken to one of these gifted persons, who touched him, and hung a small bright silver coin, either a "fourpence ha'penny" or a "ninepence," about his neck, which, strange to say, after being worn
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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"ninepence," -- twelve and a half cents, and the "four pence ha'penny," -- six cents and a quarter.
A New England girlhood, outlined from memory (Beverly, MA) Lucy Larcom 1858
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SRPC – A 91A is a burglary, BU is Boarding Up, H2H is House to House (enquiries) and 9d is “ninepence”.
Another Day At The Office « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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This violet-maker handles each flower four times, 576 handlings for three farthings, and in the day she handles the flowers 6912 times for a wage of ninepence.
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The troops are regularly clothed and fed at West Point and most of the other posts, at the moderate rate of ninepence a ration when issued; so that the innumerable band of purchasing and issuing commissaries is discharged. . .
Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010
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The troops are regularly clothed and fed at West Point and most of the other posts, at the moderate rate of ninepence a ration when issued; so that the innumerable band of purchasing and issuing commissaries is discharged. . .
Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010
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His maximum financial liability therefore, to each child, was ninepence per annum.
Storyteller Donald Sturrock 2010
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