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Definition of Plack
1. n. A small copper coin formerly current in Scotland, worth less than a cent.
Definition of Plack
1. Noun. (qualifier Scotland and northern UK, Historical) Any of various small coins used in Scotland and the Netherlands during the 15th and 16th centuries, having a value in Scotland of four pennies Scots. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Plack
1. a former coin of Scotland [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Plack
Literary usage of Plack
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Complete Word and Phrase Concordance to the Poems and Songs of Robert by J. B. Reid (1889)
"No—stretch a point to catch a plack ; . A Ded. to GH, 8. To catch Dame Fortune's
golden smile ... To catch-the-plack ! Ep. toj. L—k. Ap. ist. го. Catechize. ..."
2. A Practical Treatise on the Forms of Process: Containing the New Regulations by Thomas Beveridge, Scotland Jury Court (1826)
"ANCIENTLY a plack, or four pennies Scots, equal to one-third of a penny Sterling,
... The plack having ceased to be in use as a coin, the next highest ..."
3. The Judicial Dictionary, of Words and Phrases Judicially Interpreted, to by Frederick Stroud (1903)
"The plack of Delivery " of MILK, s. 3, 42 & 43 V. c, 30, is where the seller
delivers, or has agreed to deliver, it, even though it be sent from a distance ..."
4. The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal (1862)
"... AN ADVENTURE AT SHAKSPEARE S BIRTH-plack. JAM about to relate an incident
which came within my own knowledge at Stratford-on-Avon some few years ago, ..."
5. The Forest Flora of North-west and Central India: A Handbook of the by John Lindsay Stewart, Dietrich Brandis (1874)
"... WATERLOO plack, PALL MALL. 2fi Sepoy War in India—continued. habad.—Cawnpore.—The
March to Cawnpore. ..."
6. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1914)
"plack OF BUSINESS v. Pacific Gateway & Development Co., 104 Рас. 698, 11 Cal.
App. 237. The "principal office or place of business" of a corporation, ..."
7. A Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language ...: Supplement by John Jamieson (1825)
"plack, s. 1. A billon coin, SEC.] Add; According to the Diet. Trévoux, Place, en
terme de guerre, est un mot générique qui comprend toutes eortes de ..."
8. A Complete Word and Phrase Concordance to the Poems and Songs of Robert by J. B. Reid (1889)
"No—stretch a point to catch a plack ; . A Ded. to GH, 8. To catch Dame Fortune's
golden smile ... To catch-the-plack ! Ep. toj. L—k. Ap. ist. го. Catechize. ..."
9. A Practical Treatise on the Forms of Process: Containing the New Regulations by Thomas Beveridge, Scotland Jury Court (1826)
"ANCIENTLY a plack, or four pennies Scots, equal to one-third of a penny Sterling,
... The plack having ceased to be in use as a coin, the next highest ..."
10. The Judicial Dictionary, of Words and Phrases Judicially Interpreted, to by Frederick Stroud (1903)
"The plack of Delivery " of MILK, s. 3, 42 & 43 V. c, 30, is where the seller
delivers, or has agreed to deliver, it, even though it be sent from a distance ..."
11. The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal (1862)
"... AN ADVENTURE AT SHAKSPEARE S BIRTH-plack. JAM about to relate an incident
which came within my own knowledge at Stratford-on-Avon some few years ago, ..."
12. The Forest Flora of North-west and Central India: A Handbook of the by John Lindsay Stewart, Dietrich Brandis (1874)
"... WATERLOO plack, PALL MALL. 2fi Sepoy War in India—continued. habad.—Cawnpore.—The
March to Cawnpore. ..."
13. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1914)
"plack OF BUSINESS v. Pacific Gateway & Development Co., 104 Рас. 698, 11 Cal.
App. 237. The "principal office or place of business" of a corporation, ..."
14. A Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language ...: Supplement by John Jamieson (1825)
"plack, s. 1. A billon coin, SEC.] Add; According to the Diet. Trévoux, Place, en
terme de guerre, est un mot générique qui comprend toutes eortes de ..."
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