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- noun Plural form of
ha’penny .
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Examples
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The last two ha'pennies had gone to buy the bread.
A PIECE OF STEAK 2010
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"Twenty-six or - seven -- you're over twenty-five right now, I'll bet you on it, shillings to ha'pennies, and you'll make thirty when you get your full weight," Dag Daughtry told him.
CHAPTER 1 2010
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The last two ha'pennies had gone to buy the bread.
A PIECE OF STEAK 2010
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The core of the collection is the hoard of copper British pennies and ha'pennies I accumulated during the family's trip to Scotland in 1970 when I was eleven.
Antiquities 2010
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And all because I'd squeezed Fanny Duberly's tits at Roundway Down and played vingtet-un for ha'pennies with the likes of D'Israeli.
Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010
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Parry came down Hecla's side in this huge cloak that he didn't throw off even when all the men were assembled — most in costume, we had this huge trunk of costumes on each ship — and when he did throw down the cloak, we saw Parry as that old Marine — you remember the one with the peg leg what played the fiddle for ha'pennies near Chatham?
The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007
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Its going to suck because I don't have two ha'pennies to rub together to buy presents with for anyone.
catpewk Diary Entry catpewk 2003
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I even remember counting farthings, four to a penny, as well as ha'pennies and half crowns.
Broken Music, A Memoir Sting 2003
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When she'd finished collecting ha'pennies, she had exactly fourpence.
The Gates Of Sleep Lackey, Mercedes 2002
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In her hand lay what were supposed to have been four ha'pennies that she had just poured out of the vase.
The Gates Of Sleep Lackey, Mercedes 2002
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