About The Word Farthing
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Farthing
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What's The Definition Of Farthing?
[n] a former British bronze coin worth a quarter of a penny
Synonyms | Synonyms for Farthing: Related Terms | Find terms related to Farthing: a continental | a curse | a damn | a darn | a hoot | ace | atom | bagatelle | bauble | bawbee | bean | bibelot | bit | brass farthing | button | cent | crown | curio | dab | dole | dollar | dot | dram | dribble | driblet | dwarf | farce | feather | fig | fiver | fleabite | fleck | florin | flyspeck | folderol | fourpence | fourpenny | fourth | fourth part | fragment | fribble | frippery | gaud | gewgaw | gimcrack | gobbet | grain | granule | groat | guinea | hair | half crown | half dollar | halfpenny | handful | hill of beans | iota | jest | joke | jot | kickshaw | knickknack | knickknackery | little | little bit | mag | meg | minikin | minim | minimum | minutiae | mite | mockery | modicum | molecule | molehill | monkey | mote | new pence | np | nutshell | one-fourth | ounce | p | particle | pebble | pence | penny | peppercorn | picayune | pin | pinch | pinch of snuff | pinprick | pittance | point | pony | pound | quart | quarter | quartern | quarto | quid | rap | red cent | row of pins | rush | scruple | shilling | shit | sixpence | smidgen | smitch | snap | sneeshing | sou | speck | spoonful | spot | straw | tenner | thimbleful | threepence | threepenny bit | thrippence | tiny bit | tittle | toy | trifle | trifling amount | trinket | trivia | triviality | tuppence | twenty-five cents | twenty-five percent | two bits | two cents | twopence | whim-wham | whit See Also | coin Farthing In Webster's Dictionary \Far"thing\, n. [OE. furthing, AS. fe['o]r[eth]ung, fr.
fe['o]r[eth]a fourth, fe['o]r, fe['o]wer, four. See {Four}.]
1. The fourth of a penny; a small copper coin of Great
Britain, being a cent in United States currency.
2. A very small quantity or value. [Obs.]
In her cup was no farthing seen of grease.
--Chaucer.
3. A division of land. [Obs.]
Thirty acres make a farthing land; nine farthings a
Cornish acre; and four Cornish acres a knight's fee.
--R. Carew.
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