Halfpenny is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for HALFPENNY in dictionary:

NOUN:
• 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 The last halfpenny was withdrawn in 1984
• former British coin worth half an old penny
• an English coin worth half a penny
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 HALFPENNY

halfpence19 halfpennies19 maile7

Words that contain HALFPENNY

halfpennyworth31 halfpennyworths32

How to use HALFPENNY in a sentence

• There was not a single halfpenny in hand between the matrons of the three orphan houses.
• Rake not into the bowels of unwelcome truth, to save a halfpenny.
• Wordsworth gave a penny apiece or a half-penny apiece for trapped mice to a little girl who had undertaken to clear the house of them.
• No one could say we had taken the value of a halfpenny from any man.
• Instead of doing her hair as usual in one severe penny bun at the back, she had constructed a halfpenny bun, so to speak, over each ear.
• Reports of the financial standing, receipts and expenditures to the half-penny are presented every year.
• Subscriptions received from working-men, twenty-two pounds seven and ten pence halfpenny.
• No halfpenny may touch another halfpenny or cross the boundary.
• You take with you keys to Esperanto, price one halfpenny each, in various languages.
• It was greatly strengthened by a study of the reproduction of the Socialist manifesto on the front page of an enterprising halfpenny paper.
• Boots can be cleaned for a penny, shoes for a halfpenny.
• To assist them, an old decrepit, long-bearded fellow, the oft-heard of Charon, attends with a ferry-boat to carry them to the other side, at a fare not less than a halfpenny.
• He proposed also to reduce the duty on all foreign wool imported at a lower price than one shilling the pound to one halfpenny.
• The act provided that a rate of one halfpenny in the pound might be levied for library purposes, but no provision was made for buying books.
• It costs a halfpenny a day, runs to six pages, is well printed and brightly composed and contains no advertisements.
• I am not worth a halfpenny, I am the humblest peasant in the whole village, and yet, young man, I have strength.
• If any Member tells Stories in the Club that are not true, he shall forfeit for every third Lie an Half-Penny.
• Every single half sheet pays a halfpenny to the Queen.
• He used to bless me when I was a boy, and it used to cost him a halfpenny a time.
• I think it would be a good move if you were to drop these, increase the number of pages, and reduce the price to a halfpenny.
• A story can never be too long, for its conclusion is merely to be deplored, like the last halfpenny or the last pipelight.
• It was like the expenditure of a miser, trying to exhaust a million, halfpenny by halfpenny.
• At a quarter-sessions in Leicester, the justices had wisely decreed, to take off a halfpenny in a quart from the price of ale.
• Mr Cophagus supplied me with good clothes, but never gave me any pocket-money, and Timothy and I often lamented that we had not even a halfpenny to spend.
• What was I to do? I could not expect for years to make a halfpenny, as a physician.
• I assure you there are only two pounds one shilling and a halfpenny in the till.
• I must walk, of course, but how was I to live on the road? I was running messages for the grocer with whom mother had dealt, and he gave me a halfpenny when he had an errand.

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