| 单词 | manx penny |
| 释义 | > as lemmasManx penny Manx penny n. now historical a copper coin issued on the Isle of Man variously between 1709 and 1839 and stamped with the Manx emblem of a triskelion of three legs, equivalent in value to about 1/ 14 of the English shilling (figurative in quot. a1881). ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > English coins > [noun] > penny > local varieties of penny1394 Manx penny1868 1868 G. M. Sproat Scenes Stud. Savage Life 14 They [sc. the lakes on Vancouver Island] are most irregular in shape..extending between mountains for ten or fifteen miles in different directions like the legs on a Manx penny. a1881 T. Carlyle in Harper's Mag. (1883) Nov. 877/1 [He] hadn't the heart to..watch a woman..making a Manx penny of herself. 1898 G. B. Rawlings Brit. Coinage 192 Queen Victoria coined a Manx penny, halfpenny, and farthing, in 1839 only... This is the last coinage for the Isle of Man. < as lemmas |
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