groat

• Maybe I should have tried to buy Wilhelmina's shawl for a groat, but something was needling me, dunno what. —  process 10
• The term oatmeal usually refers to rolled oats, made with the whole oat groat (the hulled grain) or with what's called steel-cut oats (the inner portion of the oat, cut into pieces). —  JSOnline.com
• "The drunkenness of the common people," says an eye-witness, "was so universal by the retailing of a liquor called gin_, with which they could get drunk for a groat, that the whole town of London, and many towns in the country swarmed with drunken people of both sexes from morning to night, and were more like a scene from a Bacchanal than the residence of a civil society. —  A History of English Prose Fiction
• Then taking foorth a bowed groat, and an olde pennie bowed, he gave it her as being sent from her Uncle and Aunt, whome hee tearmed to bee his father and mother: Withall (quoth he) I have a Gammon of bacon and a Cheese from my Uncle your Father, which are sent to your Maister and Mistresse, which I received of the Carrier, because my Uncle enioyned me to deliver them, when I must intreat your mistres, that at Whitsontide next shee will give you leave to come downe into the Countrey. —  The Third and Last Part of Conny-Catching. (1592) With the new deuised knauish arte of Foole-taking
• He said that he himself reprieved the whole Defence of the People of England for a groat,... though it cost you much oil and labour and the Rump Ł300 a year." —  The Life of John Milton, Volume 5 (of 7), 1654-1660

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