farthing in English

noun
1
a former monetary unit and coin of the UK, withdrawn in 1961, equal to a quarter of an old penny.
During that period, he said, there was a national shortage of small-denomination half penny and farthing coins - so many local towns and even tradesmen took to minting their own tokens.

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1. A penny-farthing

2. The finest pipe-weed in South Farthing.

3. 29 I do not own a farthing - - bereft in a shipwreck of all but my wedding-ring.

4. * For this reason, in 1937 its likeness was first embossed on the farthing, which was Britain’s smallest coin at that time.

5. Hunger was shred into atomies in every farthing porringer of husky chips of potato , fried with some reluctant drops of oil .

6. An Explorer is an Aesthete who takes a photo of at least one Penny Farthing created as part of the “Redmond Bicycle Project,” and posts it on social media with the hashtags: #VALAEastside #DerbyDays2020 #RedmondBicycleProject #RandomActsOfArt and #LookWhatIFound

7. Walthamstow Wetlands: Great White Egret, Sand Martin, 3 Goldeneye, pr Reed Bunting, 4 Shoveler, 5 Shelduck (Walthamstow Birders); White-fronted Goose viewed from Coppermill Lane (James Palmer with thanks to Chris Farthing) 2 Little Grebe, Stock Dove, Green Sandpiper, 8 Chiffchaff, 6 Greenfinch (Tom Stewart) Hi Tom - whereabouts was the Green

8. "For one farthing, given to a poor man in alms, a man is made partaker of the Beatifical vision." Where it renders these words [Psa 17:15] 'I shall behold thy face in righteousness,' after this manner; 'I shall behold thy face because of alms.' One saith, "This money goes for alms, that my sons may live, and that I may obtain the world to come."