farthingn.

Brit.

/ˈfɑːðɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈfɑrðɪŋ/

Forms: Old English feorðung, Middle English feorþing, Middle English ferþing, ferþyng, Middle English south verþ-, verthing, Middle English–1500s ferthing, ferthyng(e, Middle English–1500s ferdyng(e, 1500s farthinge, farthyng(e, 1500s–1700s fardin(g, fardyng, 1800s dialect farden, fardin, 1500s– farthing.

Etymology: Old English féorðing , féorðung , < féorð-a fourth adj. and n.; corresponding to Old Norse fiórðungr, of which it may possibly be an adoption.

A quarter of some particular denomination of money or measure.

a. The quarter of a penny; the coin representing this value. (Until 17th cent. chiefly a silver coin; subsequently of copper alloys; then of bronze.) In translations of the New Testament used for the two Roman coins as and quadrans, respectively the tenth and the fourth part of a denarius.The farthing ceased to be legal tender in 1961.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > English coins > [noun] > farthing

farthingc950

ferlingc1000

quadransOE

quarter1389

quadrantc1450

quatrinc1470

Q1530

quadrine1557

rag1592

qua1631

grig1657

Jack?c1690

fadge1789

daddler1900

c950 Lindisf. Gosp. Mark xii. 42 Tuoge stycas þæt is feorðung penninges.

c950 Lindisf. Gosp. Luke xxi. 2 Gesæh ðonne an widua ðorfondlico sendende mæslenno feorðungas tuoeg.

c1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 129/800 To ȝelden ech ferþing.

1335 Act 9 Edw. III ii. c. 3 Que nul esterling, maille ne ferthing soit fondu pour vessel.

1340 Ayenbite (1866) 193 Þe poure wyfman þet ne hedde bote tuaye uerþinges þet hi offrede to þe temple.

c1450 How Good Wijf (Lamb. 853) in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 46 Ne þerfore spende neuere þe more of a ferthing.

1502 tr. Ordynarye of Crysten Men (de Worde) ii. xviii. sig. o.i ^v Vnto the laste fardynge.

1520 Chron. Eng. vii. f. 91^v/1 The kynge ordeyned that the sterlyng halfpeny and ferthyng sholde go throughout al his lande.

1555 J. Heywood Two Hundred Epigrammes with Thyrde sig. D.v^v She thynkth hir farthyng good syluer.

1611 Bible (King James) Matt. x. 29 Are not two Sparrowes solde for a farthing ?

1642 D. Rogers Naaman 33 As bare and beggarly as if he had not one brasse farthing.

1667 E. Chamberlayne Angliæ Notitia: 1st Pt. (1684) i. 11 A small piece of copper, called a Farthing.

1688 London Gaz. No. 2407/4 The new Tin Farthings..are to be delivered out at the Tinn Office in Bishopsgate-street.

1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones II. vi. xiii. 319 Here then..take every Farthing I am worth.

1849 F. W. Robertson Serm. (1866) 1st Ser. ii. 32 A miser..hoards farthings.

1866 G. MacDonald Ann. Quiet Neighb. (1878) xxxii. 556 Nor can you touch one farthing of her money.

†b. under farthing: marked with a farthing.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > [adjective] > branded or marked > ear-marked

crop-eared1530

under-bitted1555

cropped1687

under farthing1715

1715 London Gaz. No. 5365/4 Sheep..gabel'd on the Left Ear, the Right Ear under Farthing.

2. transferred.

†a. A very small piece of anything. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > a separate part > a piece or bit > small piece

fingereOE

snedec1000

seed?a1200

morselc1300

bittlock?a1400

farthingc1405

spota1413

lipetc1430

offe?1440

drewc1450

remnantc1450

parcel1483

crap1520

flakec1525

patch1528

spark1548

a piece1559

sparklec1570

inch1573

nibbling?1577

scantling1585

scrat1593

mincing1598

scantle1598

halfpenny1600

quantity1600

nip1606

kantch1608

bit1609

catch1613

scripa1617

snap1616

sippeta1625

crumblet1634

scute1635

scantleta1642

snattock1654

cantlet1700

tab1729

pallion1738

smallness1818

knobble1823

wisp1836

c1405 (c1387–95) G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 134 In hir coppe there was no ferthyng seene Of grece.

b. figurative. A very little, ‘an atom’, ‘a bit’, esp. in not to careor matter a farthing.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > quantity > smallness of quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > a small quantity or amount > the smallest amount > a jot

cornc888

grotc888

prickleOE

prickOE

pointc1300

grain1377

hair1377

motec1390

twynt1399

mitec1400

tarec1405

drop1413

ace?1440

tittlea1450

whita1450

jot1526

Jack1530

plack1530

farthingc1540

minima1585

scintil1599

atom1626

scintillation1650

punct1653

doit1660

scintilla1674

rap1792

haet1802

dottle1808

smiggot1823

hooter1839

heartbeat1855

pick1866

filament1868

hoot1878

the mind > emotion > indifference > [verb (intransitive)]

to put in no chaloir1477

not to care1490

to let the world wag (as it will)c1525

not to care a chip1556

to hang loose (to)1591

(to bid, care, give) a fig, or fig's end for1632

not to careor matter a farthing1647

not to care a doit1660

(not) to care twopencea1744

not to give a curse (also damn)1763

not to care a dump1821

not to care beans1833

not to care a darn1840

not to give a darn1840

not to care a straw (two, three straws)1861

not to care (also give) a whoop1867

(to care) not a fouter1871

not to care (or give) a toss1876

not to give (also care) a fuck1879

je m'en fiche1889

not to care a dit(e)1907

je m'en fous1918

not to give a shit1918

to pay no nevermind1946

not to give a sod1949

not to give (also care) a monkey's (fuck)1960

not to give a stuff1974

c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 8884 Hit neuer fortherit me a ferthing to fylsy my goodes.

1549 R. Crowley Voyce Laste Trumpet sig. Bviii Thou knowest not therby to make The sycke man one farthyng better.

1647 N. Ward Simple Cobler Aggawam 40 It matters not a farthing whether he be Presbyterian or Independent.

a1707 M. Prior Ladle 18 Else all these Things we toil so hard in, Wou'd not avail one single Farthing.

1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 522. ⁋6 The gentleman who has told her he does not care a farthing for her.

1872 W. Black Strange Adventures Phaeton xxv. 347 Declared that he did not care a brass farthing.

†3. farthing (of gold):

a. A quarter noble; also farthing noble. (The Anglo-Norman statute of 1421 has ferling.)

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > English coins > [noun] > noble or angel > quarter-noble

farthing (of gold)1463

farthing-noble15..

quarter noble1577

1463 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 15 I beqwethe to..Davn John Wulfpet..a ferthing of gold.

?1530 J. Rastell Pastyme of People sig. *Di [In 1351] the kynge stablysshed his coyne..and ordayned that..a noble of golde shulde go for halfe a marke, and...xx.d. for a farthynge of golde, and .xii. of those farthynges of golde dyd way an ounce.

b. A quarter royal (see quot. a1513).

ΚΠ

a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) II. f. ccxix^v This yere [1464–5] was a newe Coyne ordeyned by the kynge, the whiche was namyd the Royall, & was & yet is in value of .x. Shillynges, The halfe Royall .v.s. and the ferthynge .ii. s. vi. d.

†4. The name of various measures of land:

a. ? The quarter of a hide; = virgate n.; cf. fardel n.²

ΚΠ

1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall i. f. 36 Commonly thirtie Acres make a farthing land, nine farthings a Cornish Acre, and four Cornish Acres, a Knights fee.

b. ? The quarter of a virgate.

ΚΠ

a1000 Exon Domesday f. 356 Oltredus..reddidit gildum pro iii uirg. et iii ferdin' et dim.

c. ? The quarter of an acre, a rood (see quot. 1669 for farthing-land n. at Compounds 2 for farthing-land in Compounds 2). Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement of area > [noun] > a system or process of measuring land > other units of land measure

wandalec1150

wista1200

landc1400

ridge1439

peck1442

scrophec1450

buttc1460

rig1485

mark1488

stick1531

farthingdeal1543

plough-gang1548

quarterland1563

ploughgate1565

last1576

wand1596

ox-skin1610

garbred1621

plank1631

nooka1634

buttal1635

farthinga1640

rick1641

familia1676

rhandir1688

setiera1690

worthine1701

fierding1768

whip-land1811

rai1933

a1640 T. Risdon Chorogr. Surv. Devon (1811) (modernized text) §68 65 Moyhun was seized of three rods and three farthings of land.

Compounds

C1. attributive. Costing or valued at a farthing, as farthing-candle, whence farthing-candle-light, farthing-fee, farthing-loaf. Also objective, as farthing-coiner. Also as quasi-adj., trivial, almost valueless, unworthy of respect or notice.

ΚΠ

c1300 Havelok (Laud) (1868) 878 He..bar þe mete to þe castel, And gat him þere a ferþing wastel.

c1350 Eng. Gilds (1870) 354 Ȝif þe ferþingloff is in defawte of wyȝte ouer twelf pans.

1463 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 28 As moche ferthyng white breed as comyth to iiij s. ij d.

1524 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1884) V. 181 To every man and woman and childe of the contrie a farddyng loof.

1596 J. Dee in Record's Ground of Artes ii. 324 Directly against it [the price of wheate] in the second columne you may find the waight of the farthing white loafe.

1597 Bp. J. Hall Virgidemiarum: 1st 3 Bks. i. iv. 10 Strayning his tip-toes for a farthing fee.

1631 in S. R. Gardiner Rep. Cases Star Chamber & High Comm. (1886) 84 Then was..read the severall confessions of the 2 farthing coyners.

1673 E. Pearse Best Match vii. 76 Not so much as the light of a Farthing-Candle is to the light of the Sun.

1691 A. Gavin Frauds Romish Monks 247 Her sisters would never be at a Farthing charge to procure Prayers for her.

1795 J. Wolcot Wks. (1812) IV. 180 A sun with us..yields to every Farthing Candle.

1818 Ld. Byron Beppo xl. 21 That sort of farthing candlelight which glimmers When reeking London's smoky caldron simmers.

1848 R. Garnett Ess. 120 The farthing-candle style of the notes.

1864 Sat. Rev. 9 July 66 The farthing, as first issued, was called a farthing token.

1893 R. L. Stevenson Catriona v. 58 They each made me a little farthing compliment.

1896 H. Belloc Verses & Sonnets 25 His farthing honours.

C2. Special combinations.

farthing-boat n. a boat on which the fare is a farthing.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel for transporting people or goods > passenger vessel > [noun] > charging specific fare

farthing-boat1832

penny steamboat1848

1832 W. Stephenson Coll. Local Poems, Songs, &c. 58 She took the farthing boat.

farthing-cut n. a mark with which horses were branded by the owner.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > [noun] > brand or mark on horse

ostrich feather1672

farthing-cut1691

1691 London Gaz. No. 2694/4 Stolen or strayed..one black Nag..with a farthing cut in the near Ear.

1711 London Gaz. No. 4877/4 A farthing Cut on his Left Ear.

farthing-gleek n. see gleek n.¹

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > other card games > [noun] > gleek

gleek1533

farthing-gleeka1652

toe-gleek1689

a1652 R. Brome Mad Couple Well Match'd ii. i. sig. C3, in Five New Playes (1653) At Post and Pare, or Farthing gleeke.

farthing-land n. (see quots.).

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement of area > [noun] > a system or process of measuring land > an acre > quarter acre or rood

roodlOE

rod1449

yardc1450

particate1489

farthingdeal1543

yardland1543

stang1570

farthing-land1602

ferling1695

1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall i. f. 36 Commonly thirtie Acres make a farthing land.

1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ (1681) 325 A Farding Land, or Farundale of Land, is the fourth part of an Acre.

1882 C. Elton Orig. Eng. Hist. 193 Three kinds of land, Assart, Farthing-land and Cotman-land.

† farthing-man n. Scottish Obsolete some official of a guild.

ΚΠ

15.. Stat. Gild in Balfour Practicks 77 Quhen the Alderman, Thesurare, Farthing-man or Dene..convene the gild brether for the commoun affairis.

farthing-noble n. the fourth part of a noble.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > English coins > [noun] > noble or angel > quarter-noble

farthing (of gold)1463

farthing-noble15..

quarter noble1577

15.. in J. G. Nichols Chron. Grey Friars (1852) 5 The nobylle, half nobylle, and ferdyng~nobylle.

farthing-office n. the office from which farthings were issued.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > English coins > [noun] > farthing > office from which farthings were issued

farthing-office1672

1672 London Gaz. No. 714/4 The Farthing-Office..for the delivering out of Farthings will be open on Tuesdays only.

farthing-shop n. one where articles priced at a farthing are sold.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [noun] > shop > other types of shop

show shop1787

lock-up shop1795

cash-store1811

boat shop1813

slaughter shop1841

slaughterhouse1851

ticket-shop1851

charity shop1853

magic shop1853

company store1872

Army and Navy1878

five-and-ten1880

farthing-shop1889

funeral home1895

goodwill1916

shop-within-(a)-shop1916

cash and carry1917

Piggly Wiggly1917

poverty shop1948

discount house1949

anchor1960

box store1976

mom-and-pop1976

op shop1978

duty-free1980

pound shop1983

pop-up2000

1889 Pall Mall Gaz. 6 Sept. 3/1 The farthing shop is in Dorset-street.

farthing-trout n. a name of the Samlet or Parr.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > seafood > [noun] > fish > salmon > young salmon or parr

fario1753

parr1771

fingerling1829

farthing-trout1865

the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > family Salmonidae (salmon) > [noun] > genus Salmo > salmo salar (salmon) > young > parr

graveling1587

pinka1641

tecon1653

fingering1686

brandling1754

laspring1760

parr1771

wrack-rider1794

salmon pink1805

fingerling1829

farthing-trout1865

1865 J. Couch Hist. Fishes Brit. Islands IV. 245 Samlet..Farthing trout.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	farthing
释义	farthingn. Brit. /ˈfɑːðɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈfɑrðɪŋ/ Forms: Old English feorðung, Middle English feorþing, Middle English ferþing, ferþyng, Middle English south verþ-, verthing, Middle English–1500s ferthing, ferthyng(e, Middle English–1500s ferdyng(e, 1500s farthinge, farthyng(e, 1500s–1700s fardin(g, fardyng, 1800s dialect farden, fardin, 1500s– farthing. Etymology: Old English féorðing , féorðung , < féorð-a fourth adj. and n.; corresponding to Old Norse fiórðungr, of which it may possibly be an adoption. A quarter of some particular denomination of money or measure. 1. a. The quarter of a penny; the coin representing this value. (Until 17th cent. chiefly a silver coin; subsequently of copper alloys; then of bronze.) In translations of the New Testament used for the two Roman coins as and quadrans, respectively the tenth and the fourth part of a denarius.The farthing ceased to be legal tender in 1961. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > English coins > [noun] > farthing farthingc950 ferlingc1000 quadransOE quarter1389 quadrantc1450 quatrinc1470 Q1530 quadrine1557 rag1592 qua1631 grig1657 Jack?c1690 fadge1789 daddler1900 c950 Lindisf. Gosp. Mark xii. 42 Tuoge stycas þæt is feorðung penninges. c950 Lindisf. Gosp. Luke xxi. 2 Gesæh ðonne an widua ðorfondlico sendende mæslenno feorðungas tuoeg. c1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 129/800 To ȝelden ech ferþing. 1335 Act 9 Edw. III ii. c. 3 Que nul esterling, maille ne ferthing soit fondu pour vessel. 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 193 Þe poure wyfman þet ne hedde bote tuaye uerþinges þet hi offrede to þe temple. c1450 How Good Wijf (Lamb. 853) in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 46 Ne þerfore spende neuere þe more of a ferthing. 1502 tr. Ordynarye of Crysten Men (de Worde) ii. xviii. sig. o.i ^v Vnto the laste fardynge. 1520 Chron. Eng. vii. f. 91^v/1 The kynge ordeyned that the sterlyng halfpeny and ferthyng sholde go throughout al his lande. 1555 J. Heywood Two Hundred Epigrammes with Thyrde sig. D.v^v She thynkth hir farthyng good syluer. 1611 Bible (King James) Matt. x. 29 Are not two Sparrowes solde for a farthing ? View more context for this quotation 1642 D. Rogers Naaman 33 As bare and beggarly as if he had not one brasse farthing. 1667 E. Chamberlayne Angliæ Notitia: 1st Pt. (1684) i. 11 A small piece of copper, called a Farthing. 1688 London Gaz. No. 2407/4 The new Tin Farthings..are to be delivered out at the Tinn Office in Bishopsgate-street. 1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones II. vi. xiii. 319 Here then..take every Farthing I am worth. View more context for this quotation 1849 F. W. Robertson Serm. (1866) 1st Ser. ii. 32 A miser..hoards farthings. 1866 G. MacDonald Ann. Quiet Neighb. (1878) xxxii. 556 Nor can you touch one farthing of her money. †b. under farthing: marked with a farthing. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > [adjective] > branded or marked > ear-marked crop-eared1530 under-bitted1555 cropped1687 under farthing1715 1715 London Gaz. No. 5365/4 Sheep..gabel'd on the Left Ear, the Right Ear under Farthing. 2. transferred. †a. A very small piece of anything. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > a separate part > a piece or bit > small piece fingereOE snedec1000 seed?a1200 morselc1300 bittlock?a1400 farthingc1405 spota1413 lipetc1430 offe?1440 drewc1450 remnantc1450 parcel1483 crap1520 flakec1525 patch1528 spark1548 a piece1559 sparklec1570 inch1573 nibbling?1577 scantling1585 scrat1593 mincing1598 scantle1598 halfpenny1600 quantity1600 nip1606 kantch1608 bit1609 catch1613 scripa1617 snap1616 sippeta1625 crumblet1634 scute1635 scantleta1642 snattock1654 cantlet1700 tab1729 pallion1738 smallness1818 knobble1823 wisp1836 c1405 (c1387–95) G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 134 In hir coppe there was no ferthyng seene Of grece. b. figurative. A very little, ‘an atom’, ‘a bit’, esp. in not to careor matter a farthing. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > smallness of quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > a small quantity or amount > the smallest amount > a jot cornc888 grotc888 prickleOE prickOE pointc1300 grain1377 hair1377 motec1390 twynt1399 mitec1400 tarec1405 drop1413 ace?1440 tittlea1450 whita1450 jot1526 Jack1530 plack1530 farthingc1540 minima1585 scintil1599 atom1626 scintillation1650 punct1653 doit1660 scintilla1674 rap1792 haet1802 dottle1808 smiggot1823 hooter1839 heartbeat1855 pick1866 filament1868 hoot1878 the mind > emotion > indifference > [verb (intransitive)] to put in no chaloir1477 not to care1490 to let the world wag (as it will)c1525 not to care a chip1556 to hang loose (to)1591 (to bid, care, give) a fig, or fig's end for1632 not to careor matter a farthing1647 not to care a doit1660 (not) to care twopencea1744 not to give a curse (also damn)1763 not to care a dump1821 not to care beans1833 not to care a darn1840 not to give a darn1840 not to care a straw (two, three straws)1861 not to care (also give) a whoop1867 (to care) not a fouter1871 not to care (or give) a toss1876 not to give (also care) a fuck1879 je m'en fiche1889 not to care a dit(e)1907 je m'en fous1918 not to give a shit1918 to pay no nevermind1946 not to give a sod1949 not to give (also care) a monkey's (fuck)1960 not to give a stuff1974 c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 8884 Hit neuer fortherit me a ferthing to fylsy my goodes. 1549 R. Crowley Voyce Laste Trumpet sig. Bviii Thou knowest not therby to make The sycke man one farthyng better. 1647 N. Ward Simple Cobler Aggawam 40 It matters not a farthing whether he be Presbyterian or Independent. a1707 M. Prior Ladle 18 Else all these Things we toil so hard in, Wou'd not avail one single Farthing. 1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 522. ⁋6 The gentleman who has told her he does not care a farthing for her. 1872 W. Black Strange Adventures Phaeton xxv. 347 Declared that he did not care a brass farthing. †3. farthing (of gold): a. A quarter noble; also farthing noble. (The Anglo-Norman statute of 1421 has ferling.) ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > English coins > [noun] > noble or angel > quarter-noble farthing (of gold)1463 farthing-noble15.. quarter noble1577 1463 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 15 I beqwethe to..Davn John Wulfpet..a ferthing of gold. ?1530 J. Rastell Pastyme of People sig. Di [In 1351] the kynge stablysshed his coyne..and ordayned that..a noble of golde shulde go for halfe a marke, and...xx.d. for a farthynge of golde, and .xii. of those farthynges of golde dyd way an ounce. b. A quarter royal (see quot. a1513). ΚΠ a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce* (1516) II. f. ccxix^v This yere [1464–5] was a newe Coyne ordeyned by the kynge, the whiche was namyd the Royall, & was & yet is in value of .x. Shillynges, The halfe Royall .v.s. and the ferthynge .ii. s. vi. d. †4. The name of various measures of land: a. ? The quarter of a hide; = virgate n.; cf. fardel n.² ΚΠ 1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall i. f. 36 Commonly thirtie Acres make a farthing land, nine farthings a Cornish Acre, and four Cornish Acres, a Knights fee. b. ? The quarter of a virgate. ΚΠ a1000 Exon Domesday f. 356 Oltredus..reddidit gildum pro iii uirg. et iii ferdin' et dim. c. ? The quarter of an acre, a rood (see quot. 1669 for farthing-land n. at Compounds 2 for farthing-land in Compounds 2). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement of area > [noun] > a system or process of measuring land > other units of land measure wandalec1150 wista1200 landc1400 ridge1439 peck1442 scrophec1450 buttc1460 rig1485 mark1488 stick1531 farthingdeal1543 plough-gang1548 quarterland1563 ploughgate1565 last1576 wand1596 ox-skin1610 garbred1621 plank1631 nooka1634 buttal1635 farthinga1640 rick1641 familia1676 rhandir1688 setiera1690 worthine1701 fierding1768 whip-land1811 rai1933 a1640 T. Risdon Chorogr. Surv. Devon (1811) (modernized text) §68 65 Moyhun was seized of three rods and three farthings of land. Compounds C1. attributive. Costing or valued at a farthing, as farthing-candle, whence farthing-candle-light, farthing-fee, farthing-loaf. Also objective, as farthing-coiner. Also as quasi-adj., trivial, almost valueless, unworthy of respect or notice. ΚΠ c1300 Havelok (Laud) (1868) 878 He..bar þe mete to þe castel, And gat him þere a ferþing wastel. c1350 Eng. Gilds (1870) 354 Ȝif þe ferþingloff is in defawte of wyȝte ouer twelf pans. 1463 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 28 As moche ferthyng white breed as comyth to iiij s. ij d. 1524 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1884) V. 181 To every man and woman and childe of the contrie a farddyng loof. 1596 J. Dee in Record's Ground of Artes ii. 324 Directly against it [the price of wheate] in the second columne you may find the waight of the farthing white loafe. 1597 Bp. J. Hall Virgidemiarum: 1st 3 Bks. i. iv. 10 Strayning his tip-toes for a farthing fee. 1631 in S. R. Gardiner Rep. Cases Star Chamber & High Comm. (1886) 84 Then was..read the severall confessions of the 2 farthing coyners. 1673 E. Pearse Best Match vii. 76 Not so much as the light of a Farthing-Candle is to the light of the Sun. 1691 A. Gavin Frauds Romish Monks 247 Her sisters would never be at a Farthing charge to procure Prayers for her. 1795 J. Wolcot Wks. (1812) IV. 180 A sun with us..yields to every Farthing Candle. 1818 Ld. Byron Beppo xl. 21 That sort of farthing candlelight which glimmers When reeking London's smoky caldron simmers. 1848 R. Garnett Ess. 120 The farthing-candle style of the notes. 1864 Sat. Rev. 9 July 66 The farthing, as first issued, was called a farthing token. 1893 R. L. Stevenson Catriona v. 58 They each made me a little farthing compliment. 1896 H. Belloc Verses & Sonnets 25 His farthing honours. C2. Special combinations. farthing-boat n. a boat on which the fare is a farthing. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel for transporting people or goods > passenger vessel > [noun] > charging specific fare farthing-boat1832 penny steamboat1848 1832 W. Stephenson Coll. Local Poems, Songs, &c. 58 She took the farthing boat. farthing-cut n. a mark with which horses were branded by the owner. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > [noun] > brand or mark on horse ostrich feather1672 farthing-cut1691 1691 London Gaz. No. 2694/4 Stolen or strayed..one black Nag..with a farthing cut in the near Ear. 1711 London Gaz. No. 4877/4 A farthing Cut on his Left Ear. farthing-gleek n. see gleek n.¹ ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > other card games > [noun] > gleek gleek1533 farthing-gleeka1652 toe-gleek1689 a1652 R. Brome Mad Couple Well Match'd ii. i. sig. C3, in Five New Playes (1653) At Post and Pare, or Farthing gleeke. farthing-land n. (see quots.). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement of area > [noun] > a system or process of measuring land > an acre > quarter acre or rood roodlOE rod1449 yardc1450 particate1489 farthingdeal1543 yardland1543 stang1570 farthing-land1602 ferling1695 1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall i. f. 36 Commonly thirtie Acres make a farthing land. 1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ (1681) 325 A Farding Land, or Farundale of Land, is the fourth part of an Acre. 1882 C. Elton Orig. Eng. Hist. 193 Three kinds of land, Assart, Farthing-land and Cotman-land. † farthing-man n. Scottish Obsolete some official of a guild. ΚΠ 15.. Stat. Gild in Balfour Practicks 77 Quhen the Alderman, Thesurare, Farthing-man or Dene..convene the gild brether for the commoun affairis. farthing-noble n. the fourth part of a noble. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > English coins > [noun] > noble or angel > quarter-noble farthing (of gold)1463 farthing-noble15.. quarter noble1577 15.. in J. G. Nichols Chron. Grey Friars (1852) 5 The nobylle, half nobylle, and ferdyng~nobylle. farthing-office n. the office from which farthings were issued. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > English coins > [noun] > farthing > office from which farthings were issued farthing-office1672 1672 London Gaz. No. 714/4 The Farthing-Office..for the delivering out of Farthings will be open on Tuesdays only. farthing-shop n. one where articles priced at a farthing are sold. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [noun] > shop > other types of shop show shop1787 lock-up shop1795 cash-store1811 boat shop1813 slaughter shop1841 slaughterhouse1851 ticket-shop1851 charity shop1853 magic shop1853 company store1872 Army and Navy1878 five-and-ten1880 farthing-shop1889 funeral home1895 goodwill1916 shop-within-(a)-shop1916 cash and carry1917 Piggly Wiggly1917 poverty shop1948 discount house1949 anchor1960 box store1976 mom-and-pop1976 op shop1978 duty-free1980 pound shop1983 pop-up2000 1889 Pall Mall Gaz. 6 Sept. 3/1 The farthing shop is in Dorset-street. farthing-trout n. a name of the Samlet or Parr. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > seafood > [noun] > fish > salmon > young salmon or parr fario1753 parr1771 fingerling1829 farthing-trout1865 the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > family Salmonidae (salmon) > [noun] > genus Salmo > salmo salar (salmon) > young > parr graveling1587 pinka1641 tecon1653 fingering1686 brandling1754 laspring1760 parr1771 wrack-rider1794 salmon pink1805 fingerling1829 farthing-trout1865 1865 J. Couch Hist. Fishes Brit. Islands IV. 245 Samlet..Farthing trout. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c950
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