| 单词 | thirteen-pence-halfpenny piece |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthirteen-pence-halfpenny piece ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > payment for labour or service > fee for services rendered > [noun] > fee of professional person > hangman's fee thirteen-pence-halfpenny1608 thirteener and a baubee1762 society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > Scottish coins > [noun] > silver coins mark1379 noble1417 yokindale1536 Douglas groat1554 James Royal1567 leg1687 fourteen-shilling piece1695 thirteen-pence-halfpenny piece1723 spurred groata1773 sword dollar1825 c1470 Miners' Laws in C. Walters Bygone Somerset (1897) 41 If any..doth pick or steal any lead or Oare to the value of thirteen pence halfpenny the lord or his Officers may Arrest all his Lead-works.] 1608 J. Day Humour out of Breath sig. F3 He could not hang me for't: tis not worth thirteen pence halfe penny. 1630 T. Dekker Second Pt. Honest Whore v. ii. 146 Why should I eate hempe-seed at the Hangmans thirteene-pence halfe-penny Ordinary? 1723 D. Defoe Hist. Col. Jack (ed. 2) 54 A Paper of old Thirteen-pence-half-penny peices, half, and Quarter Peices, with Nine pences, and Four-pence-half-penny's, all old Crooked Money, Scots and Irish Coin. 1796 S. Pegge Anonymiana (1809) 460 Thirteen-pence halfpenny is Hangman's wages, because there was a piece of money of this sort, as likewise six-pence three-farthings, the half of it, both of them Scotch pieces, brought to us by James the First. I have seen them both. < as lemmas |
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