halfpenny|halfpence|halfpennies in English

noun

[half·pen·ny || 'heɪpnɪ]

bronze coin that is used in the United Kingdom and is equal to half a penny (also halfpence)

Use "halfpenny|halfpence|halfpennies" in a sentence

1. Bawbee (plural Bawbees) Bawbee, halfpenny

2. ♪ When he'd hardly got two halfpennies left ♪

3. This coin is called a Bawbee or a Scottish halfpenny

4. A 'Bawbee' is a term for a halfpence or ha'penny, especially in Scotland

5. A Bawbee was a Scottish halfpenny, a copper coin that was hammered until 1677

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7. But what he had taken at first for raindrops on the wagon floor were actually pennies, halfpennies and farthings scattered everywhere.

8. Bawbee (plural Bawbees) (Scotland, historical) A coin originally worth six pennies Scots, and later three; held equivalent to an English halfpenny

9. Appropriately enough, for a term originally used to denote a Scottish halfpenny first introduced in the 16th century, Bawbee (sometimes baw bee) has offered rich pickings for traditional Scots

10. ‘Private houses generally contributed a halfpenny a week, and farmers gave a Basinful or a nogin of flour.’ More example sentences ‘Huge Basinfuls of the stuff wrapped in fresh banana leaves, were eaten with some fresh, hot palm oil stew.’

11. About the month of September, I received a letter from my dear,which acquainted me that the poor condemned persons had felt theutmost severity of the law, for the mean value of three halfpence,which neither of them had received, I confess I was much Astonishedwhen I considered how very common it is with men, sportingly to ask apint of ale, or