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groat

[ groht ]

noun

  1. a silver coin of England, equal to four pennies, issued from 1279 to 1662.


groat

/ ɡrəʊt /

noun

  1. an English silver coin worth four pennies, taken out of circulation in the 17th century


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Word History and Origins

Origin of groat1

1325–75; Middle English groot < Middle Dutch groot large, name of a large coin; great

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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.

He was a younger son of a good family; had good blood in his veins, though not a groat in his pockets.

For the woman that had lost her groat, and sought it with a light; unless she had remembered it, she had never found it.

Descendants of the Groot family, now Groat, still live in the neighbourhood.

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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