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Definition of Threepence
1. Noun. Former cupronickel coin of the United Kingdom equal to three pennies.
Generic synonyms: Coin
Definition of Threepence
1. n. A small silver coin of three times the value of a penny.
Definition of Threepence
1. Noun. The amount of money equal to that of three pennies (old or new). ¹
2. Noun. A former (pre-decimalisation) British coin worth three old pennies. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Threepence
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Threepence
Literary usage of Threepence
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Miscellanies by William Makepeace Thackeray (1877)
"Why, I am proud to say that three-halfpence out of the threepence a week of almost
all ... Then there was the threepence I was to have the next Saturday. ..."
2. The Historical Magazine (1863)
"We are also told there was another sort struck with III. for threepence, but we
lave never yet met with it in any cabinet, ind even the other two are very ..."
3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1846)
"... personal attendance, threepence. Picking up a handkerchief, one penny to boys,
twopence to men. Shutting a cab-door, to the waterman one penny—where ..."
4. Calendar of State Papers by Great Britain Public Record Office, John William Fortescue (1905)
"... and have inserted a clause that if the Assembly choose to pass an Act for
settling threepence a hogshead upon the King during Colonel Blakiston's term ..."
5. History of Maryland from the Earliest Period to the Present Day ...: From by John Thomas Scharf (1879)
"On the 4th of July, 1790, Mr. Standish Barry, a silversmith, issued in Baltimore,
a silver token, known as "The Baltimore Town threepence. ..."
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