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单词 thirteen-pence-halfpenny
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thirteen-pence-halfpenny
4. thirteen-pence-halfpenny, alleged to have been the wage of a hangman. thirteen-pence-halfpenny piece, the name of the Scottish merk (= 13s. 4d. Scots money) current during the 17th century. Obsolete.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > payment for labour or service > fee for services rendered > [noun] > fee of professional person > hangman's fee
thirteen-pence-halfpenny1608
thirteener and a baubee1762
society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > Scottish coins > [noun] > silver coins
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c1470 Miners' Laws in C. Walters Bygone Somerset (1897) 41 If any..doth pick or steal any lead or Oare to the value of thirteen pence halfpenny the lord or his Officers may Arrest all his Lead-works.]
1608 J. Day Humour out of Breath sig. F3 He could not hang me for't: tis not worth thirteen pence halfe penny.
1630 T. Dekker Second Pt. Honest Whore v. ii. 146 Why should I eate hempe-seed at the Hangmans thirteene-pence halfe-penny Ordinary?
1723 D. Defoe Hist. Col. Jack (ed. 2) 54 A Paper of old Thirteen-pence-half-penny peices, half, and Quarter Peices, with Nine pences, and Four-pence-half-penny's, all old Crooked Money, Scots and Irish Coin.
1796 S. Pegge Anonymiana (1809) 460 Thirteen-pence halfpenny is Hangman's wages, because there was a piece of money of this sort, as likewise six-pence three-farthings, the half of it, both of them Scotch pieces, brought to us by James the First. I have seen them both.
extracted from thirteenadj.n.
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