Search for crossword answers and clues
(Brit) former cupronickel coin of UK equal to three pennies
Answer for the clue "(Brit) former cupronickel coin of UK equal to three pennies ", 10 letters:
threepence
Word definitions for threepence in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
The Australian Threepence is a small silver coin used in the Commonwealth of Australia prior to decimalisation. It was minted from 1910 until 1964, excluding 1913, 1929–1933 inclusive, 1937, 1945 and 1946. After decimalisation on 14 February 1966, the coin ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. former cupronickel coin of the United Kingdom equal to three pennies
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Threepence \Three"pence\, n. A small silver coin of three times the value of a penny.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES twopence/threepence etc ▪ a book costing only sixpence EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A man got one and eightpence, and threepence allowed for beer. ▪ A Tale of Two Cities: threepence . ▪ In the end Meredith was forced to accept ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable English) The amount of money equal to that of three penny (old or new). 2 (context countable historical English) A former (pre-decimalisation) British coin worth three old penny.
Usage examples of threepence.
The highlight of a working week was to go over the road to a local boozer where they sold scrumpy at one shilling and threepence a pint and get paralytic.
For grammar the statutable amount was eightpence, for natural philosophy fourpence, and for logic threepence per term, and it was usual to reckon four terms to the year.
My dear wife told him that she would give him six libbre for a lesson of two hours: the libbra of Parma being worth only about threepence, his lessons were not very expensive.
We had all passed our exams and were no longer AC2s but Leading Aircraftsmen, and as LAC Herriot my wage had rocketed from three shillings to a dizzying seven and threepence a day.
The rooms were paved with bricks, and hung with a hideous wall-paper at threepence apiece.
Threepence had a definite value as money—it was an appreciable infringement on a day’s wages, and, as such, a higgling matter.
Very well, I have threepennyworth of apples, and I have just given you the other threepence.