ha'pence

/ˈheɪp(ə)ns/

A form of ha'penny — A halfpenny; a former British and Irish coin.

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Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of ha'penny

    2010 July 22, George Monbiot, The Guardian, George Monbiot's Blog,How scrapping the SDC to save money will cost the taxpayer a fortune Junking it is the definitive false economy: spoiling the ship for a ha' pence of tar.

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    "Give us hold of the three ha'pence. Cut away with you, and if you are gone as long as a minute, see what you'll catch." "Give him the three-ha'pence and cut away !"

    1866, James Greenwood, The true history of a little ragamuffin, page 68

    Now Maple were Sam's Monopoly; That means it were all 'is to cut, And nobody else 'adn't got none; So 'e asked Noah three ha'pence a foot.

    c. 1930, Marriott Edgar, Three Ha'pence A Foot

    That's why chaps like me, who take their work seriously, get more kicks than ha'pence. Ninety per cent of the men who outrank me got where they did by a word in the right ear at the right time...Give Us This Day, published by Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN

    1975, R. F. Delderfield., Give Us This Day
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