groat /grōt (formerly gröt)/

1. An obsolete English silver coin, worth four old pence and after 1662 coined only as Maundy money (the silver fourpenny-piece, coined 1836–56, was not officially called a groat)
2. A very small sum, proverbially

• enlight
• half the time
• half-tide
• half-timbered
• half-time
• half-timer
• half-timers
• half-times
• half-tint
• half-tints
• half-title
• half-titles
• half-tone
• half-tones
• half-track
• half-tracks
• half-truth
• half-truths
• half volley
• halfway
• halfway house
• halfway houses
• half-wellington
• halfwit
• halfwits