Crossword clues for twopence
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Twopence \Two"pence\ (?; 277), n. A small coin, and money of account, in England, equivalent to two pennies, -- minted to a fixed annual amount, for almsgiving by the sovereign on Maundy Thursday.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context British English) A bronze British coin worth two pennies 2 (context British English) A cost or value of two pennies 3 (context British English) (''by extension'') A small amount or value
WordNet
n. a former United Kingdom silver coin; United Kingdom bronze decimal coin worth two pennies [syn: tuppence]
Wikipedia
Twopence or tuppence may refer to:
- Two pence (or pennies) in British coinage, or the specific coins:
- Twopence (British pre-decimal coin)
- Two pence (British decimal coin)
- Tuppence (detective), a recurring character in the works of Agatha Christie
- Tuppence Middleton, an English actress
- 'Tuppence' Moran, a nickname for Desmond Moran
- Maundy Money, ceremonial coinage that includes a two-pence coin, traditionally given to the poor.
- My two penn'orth, an idiomatic expression.
The pre-decimal twopence (2d) was a coin worth one one-hundred-and-twentieth of a pound sterling, or two pence. It was a short lived denomination, only being minted in 1797 by Matthew Boulton's Soho Mint.
Before Decimal Day in 1971, two hundred and forty pence equaled one pound sterling. Twelve pence made a shilling, and twenty shillings made a pound. Values less than a pound were usually written in terms of shillings and pence, e.g. forty-two pence would be three shillings and six pence (3/6), pronounced "three and six". Values of less than a shilling were simply written in terms of pence, e.g. eight pence would be 8d.
These coins were made legal tender for amounts of up to one shilling by a proclamation of 26 July 1797. They were later made redundant in 1860 with the advent of bronze coinage.
Usage examples of "twopence".
And the three-and-six he got for the shift had to go for the rent, not even twopence for baccy, let alone a pint.
She is a good, honest girl, and she saved your life, daroga, at a moment when I would not have given twopence for your Persian skin.
The public funds were fourpence three farthing a day for each pauper out of which Jem Hocking managed to purloin twopence, while the rest was grudgingly spent on stale bread, onions, barley and oatmeal.
Twopence a pint, fourpence a quart, eightpence a gallon of porter, no, one and fourpence a gallon of porter.
I got two shillings from Jack Power and I spent twopence for a shave for the funeral.
He accuses him of patching his plays together without caring twopence for credibility, of dealing in fantastic fables and impossible situations, of making all his characters talk in an artificial flowery language completely unlike that of real life.
Beef is tenpence to thirteenpence a pound, mutton about the same, bacon tenpence, pork tenpence, chickens four and twopence each.
And the three-and-six he got for the shift had to go for the rent, not even twopence for baccy, let alone a pint.
For after an atomic conflagration none of the world's libraries will be of any use and all the achievements that make us so proud will not be worth twopence, because they have disappeared, because they have been destroyed, because they have been atomised.
If they sell any at home, beside harder measure, it shall be dearer to the poor man that buyeth it by twopence or a groat in a bushel than they may sell it in the market.
The right-hand door showed the admission price, of twopence per person per visit.
She is afraid that death may enter her home and find her unprepared for a funeral, so she pays one penny weekly for each of her children and twopence for herself to some collection society.
Religiously they pay a penny or twopence a week for each of their children to some industrial insurance company for this purpose.
But we will assume for the purposes of our puzzle that twopence multiplied by twopence is fourpence.
Nay, the poor man cannot oft get any of the farmer at home, because he provideth altogether to serve the bodger, or hath an hope, grounded upon a greedy and insatiable desire of gain, that the sale will be better in the market, so that he must give twopence or a groat more in the bushel at his house than the last market craved, or else go without it, and sleep with a hungry belly.