| 单词 | penny piece |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspenny piece penny piece n. (a) a piece of any commodity sold for a penny; (b) a piece of money of the value of a penny, a penny coin. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > monetary value > [noun] > amount of specific value > specific pennyworthOE halfpennywortha1035 shillingswortha1325 three-halfpennyworthc1440 sixpennyworthc1450 pounds worthc1460 groatsworth1562 penny1564 penny piece1601 threepennyworth1617 piceworth1832 two pennyworth1851 six1871 pounder1895 society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > English coins > [noun] > penny pennylOE sterling1297 win1567 penny piece1797 dubbeltjie1822 cross-penny1837 saltee1859 trident1898 bun-penny1958 1565 J. Stow Summarie Eng. Chrons. f. 242 The thre peny piece.] 1601 J. Stow Annales 957 The butchers of London sold penny pieces of beefe for the reliefe of the poore, euery piece two pounde and a halfe. 1681 S. Colvil Mock Poem i. 54 We sold Covering, Sheet, and Blanket, And Gowns, and Plaids, and Petticoats, Meal and Pease, Barley and Oats, Butter and Cheese, and Wool Fleeces, For Groats and Fourty Peny pieces. 1797 London Gaz. No. 14031/2 Such Penny Pieces [shall be received] as of the Value of One Penny. 1843 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit (1844) xix. 236 When Gamp was summonsed to his long home, and I see him a lying in Guy's Hospital with a penny-piece on each eye.., I thought I should have fainted away. 1899 S. R. Crockett Ione March xiv ‘Don't you give in, or take a penny-piece from one of them!’ she said. 1995 Jrnl. Operational Res. Soc. 46 619 Technology. Game board, penny pieces, order slips, record sheets. < as lemmas |
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