English Explanatory Dictionary

three halfpence

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A silver coin with a face value of one and a half pence (1½d.):
  2. Such an English coin (1½d.), minted 1561–1582.
  3. Such a British coin (1½d. = £⅟₁₆₀), minted 1834–1843 and 1860–1862 for circulation in the colonies of the British Empire (chiefly Ceylon and the West Indies).
  4. A money of account equal to 1½d.

Word forms

three halfpence a plural noun with the singular three halfpenny three halfpences three-halfpence three ha'pence three-ha'pence three halfpennies three-halfpennies three ha'pennies three-ha'pennies three halfpenny three-halfpenny
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