- the sum of four British pennies
- a former silver coin of this value
fourpence
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Sentence Examples
- The payment for tuition varies from fourpence or fivepence to tenpence a month for each child.
- The rebels at first demanded no more than that Richard should declare villeinage abolished, and that all feudal dues and services should be commuted for a rent of fourpence an acre.
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- fourpenny
- fourpenny nail