Halfpenny

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A discontinued English (later British) coin worth half of one penny (old or new).

   “There vvere none principal, they vvere all like one another, as halfe pence are, euerie one fault ſeeming monſtrous, til his fellovv-fault came to match it.”

2. isim A similar coin formerly used in Ireland and Scotland.
3. isim An amount of money that the English (later British) coin was worth.

   “There ſhall be in England, ſeuen halfe peny Loaues ſold for a peny: the three hoop'd pot, ſhall haue ten hoopes, and I vvill make it Fellony to drink ſmall Beere.”

4. isim An amount of money that the Irish or Scottish coin was worth.
5. isim A postage stamp worth half of one penny.
6. isim A usually semicircular earmark made in the ear of a livestock animal.
7. isim A small piece; a fragment.

   “O ſhe tore the letter into a thouſand halfpence, raild at her ſelf, that ſhe ſhould be ſo immodeſt to vvrite, to one that ſhe knevv vvould flout her, […]”

8. özel isim A surname transferred from the nickname.