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groat
[ groht ]
noun
- a silver coin of England, equal to four pennies, issued from 1279 to 1662.
groat
/ ɡrəʊt /
noun
- an English silver coin worth four pennies, taken out of circulation in the 17th century
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of groat1
C14: from Middle Dutch groot, from Middle Low German gros, from Medieval Latin ( denarius ) grossus thick (coin); see groschen
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Example Sentences
But one that stood by whispered in my ear that the Bishopp himself do not spend one groat to the poor himself.
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He was a younger son of a good family; had good blood in his veins, though not a groat in his pockets.
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For the woman that had lost her groat, and sought it with a light; unless she had remembered it, she had never found it.
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Descendants of the Groot family, now Groat, still live in the neighbourhood.
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One of them carried a young bittern which they had caught upon the moor, and they offered it to Alleyne for a silver groat.
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