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Definition of Eightpence
1. Noun. A coin worth eight pennies.
Definition of Eightpence
1. Noun. (historical currency) A former coin worth eight pence. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Eightpence
Literary usage of Eightpence
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. America, Historical, Statistic, and Descriptive by James Silk Buckingham (1841)
"... eightpence Sterling per Acre —Same Land now worth fifty Dollars per Acre.—Arrival
at Rochester, on the t ..."
2. A Glossary; Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1867)
"Coryat estimates its value at eight shillings and eightpence halfpenny of the
English coin of Lie time. Vol. ii, p. 21, repr. ..."
3. Tenures of Land & Customs of Manors by William Carew Hazlitt, Thomas Blount (1874)
"service of fifty shillings and eightpence a year, and by the service of three
quarters and a half of barley malt, ..."
4. The Library of Wit and Humor, Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Literature by Rufus Edmonds Shapley (1884)
"five me eightpence change in coppers, as dropped in the middle of the road, where
he left me ... eightpence ..."
5. Tenures of Land & Customs of Manors by Thomas Blount, William Carew Hazlitt (1874)
"Those native tenants who then remained paid a yearly tung of eightpence, and
performed the same services as those at ..."
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