(British, historical, 13th-19th C.) A unit of area equal to one quarter of an acre.
(British, historical, 13th-19th C.) A unit of area equal to one quarter of an acre.
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A measure of land area, equal to a quarter of an acre.
(historical) The area of land that could be plowed by an ox in a year, hide or carucate and notionally 15 acres.
(Scotland, historical) An obsolete Scots unit equal to daugh, notionally comprising 50 Scottish acres.
An obsolete British slang term for a farthing, the smallest denomination of British pre-decimal currency — worth one quarter of a penny. The word is a diminutive formation, reinforcing the coin's negligible value. It appears in 18th and 19th-century slang dictionaries and literary works depicting working-class or criminal slang, where coins of every denomination had their own vocabulary. The farthing itself was withdrawn from circulation in 1960, taking most of its slang synonyms with it.