Meanings
nounquarter farthing (plural quarter farthings)
plural quarter farthings · alternative quarter-farthing
- historicalhobbiesA British coin, produced for circulation in Ceylon 1839–1853, which, at a face value of ⅟₁₆d. (£⅟₃₈₄₀), is the lowest denomination of coin ever minted for the United Kingdom.
[‘]The score, however, was only 10 thalers, 4 groschen, 6 pfennigs’ (30 shillings, 5 pence, and 2 or perhaps 3 quarter-farthings), ‘for what I had run-up in eight weeks[.]’
1750 June–August, Thomas Carlyle, in The Works of Thomas Carlyle III (2010), ed. Henry Duff Traill, page 257
Translations
French quart de farthing
- quart de farthingformer British coin denominated to ⅟₁₆d.
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