Halfpence is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for HALFPENCE in dictionary:

NOUN:
• HALFPENNY, a coin worth half a pre-decimal penny
• a former British coin equal to half an old or new penny. The last halfpenny was withdrawn in 1984
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• plural halfpence play \ˈhā-pÉ™n(t)s, US also ˈhaf-ËŒpen(t)s, ˈhäf-\ or halfpennies; a formerly used British coin representing one half of a penny
• plural halfpence play \\ˈhā-pÉ™n(t)s, US also ˈhaf-ËŒpen(t)s, ˈhäf-\\ or halfpennies; a formerly used British coin representing one half of a penny

Words related to HALFPENCE

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How to use HALFPENCE in a sentence

• It was proved to be worth three half-pence per pound.
• After this relation I kept a strict watch on the child, and three or four days afterwards the children detected him opening my desk, and taking half-pence out of it.
• They informed me of this, and while they were bringing him up to me the half-pence dropped out of his hand.
• In giving her change, the pedlar took out of his pocket, with some half-pence, the very box which Cecilia had sold him.
• Thus, a handful of halfpence daily appear pitiful to a porter, and a handful of silver to a drawer.
• Throw me a few halfpence, making as it were charity.
• He stood a couple of feet off them, seemingly counting halfpence out of his trousers pocket, but, as I could see, looking up steadily under the broad brim of his hat.
• She received from the ships in the harbour sixty-four girls, and all the money they had was fourteen shillings and three half-pence.
• John Broom pulled out three halfpence lately earned, and the Scotchman dropped them slowly into the box.
• He was nearly enough for them both, but numbers prevailed, and when they had mastered him, after searching his pockets, they only found three halfpence.
• A good-natured curate was laying up for himself treasure elsewhere, by a present expenditure of half-pence secreted in a tub of bran.
• His books were procured by the careful accumulation of the halfpence bestowed on him by the admirers of his juvenile tastes.
• I write this not because I care for them, for they are not worth three halfpence between them, but because, if they come to talk to Lodovico, he must not be surprised.
• I find, by several Letters which I receive daily, that many of my Readers would be better pleased to pay Three Half-Pence for my Paper, than Two-Pence.
• On being given to Washington it was weighed, and being found three half-pence short, the ferryman was ordered to collect the balance due.
• Thirdly, Much less are you obliged to take those vile halfpence of that same Wood, by which you must lose almost eleven-pence in every shilling.
• And whereas it is notorious that the said Wood hath coined his halfpence of such base metal and false weight, that they are, at least, six parts in seven below the real value.
• Parker made the fairest offer, and Wood the worst, for his coin were three halfpence in a pound less value than the other.
• Neither did our case turn at all upon the question, whether Ireland wanted halfpence or no.
• The total daily output of salt at these wells does not exceed two tons a day, and the cost at the wells, including the Government tax, amounts to about three half-pence a pound.
• Kneel down now, and let him give you your sight, and himself can be sitting here if he likes it best, and taking halfpence on the road.
• John Galbraith could remember the time when, a nameless little rat of a cockney, he had slept under London bridges, opened cab doors for half-pence, carried links on foggy nights.

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