Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A customary duty formerly paid to tithingmen for liberty to dig in the English tin-mines.
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Examples
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A ragged old woman, going round to the other side of the carriage, bawled out, in the old peer's hearing, "Please you, my lord, just chuck _one_ tin-penny out of your coach, and I'll answer it will trait _all your friends_ in Athlone."
The Jest Book The Choicest Anecdotes and Sayings Mark Lemon 1839
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