The Collaborative International Dictionary
halfpence \half"pence\ (h[=a]"p[e^]ns), n. an English coin worth half a penny; -- no longer minted.
Syn: halfpenny, ha'penny.
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alt. (plural of halfpenny English) n. (plural of halfpenny English)
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Usage examples of "halfpence".
He has raised his rents, to the danger of depopulating his farms, and he fells his timber, and by exerting every art of augmentation, has obtained an yearly revenue of four hundred pounds, which for a hundred square miles is three halfpence an acre.
I shall show you that, on many occasions, he gave halfpence, and on some occasions even sixpences, to her little boy.
I think not, but it may give wings to imagination when I say that in London's underworld there are at least 50,000 women whose earnings do not exceed three halfpence per hour, and who live under conditions similar to those described.
After my first accounts to him he had persisted in referring to it as a tuck-shop, a sort of place where schoolboys would exchange their halfpence for toffy, sweet-cakes, and marbles.