Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A coin formerly used in Great Britain, worth two shillings and sixpence.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An English silver coin of half the value of the crown — that is, 2s. 6d. It has been current since the time of Edward VI.
- noun A gold coin worth 2s. 6d., formerly current in England, and first issued by Henry VIII.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
pre-decimal coin used in Britain and Ireland, now obsolete, equivalent to twoshillings and sixpence
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Examples
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At the same time -- fitting accompaniment to the over-bold words -- Peter saw a half-crown, a round, solid, terrible _half-crown_, pressed into Urquhart's unsuspecting hand.
The Lee Shore Rose Macaulay 1919
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Where did we queue to buy the commemorative crown pieces, the silver five-bobs that suddenly made sense of the term "half-crown", of which they were the vanished ancestors?
My memories of the Festival of Britain? 'Oh, not another queue' | Ian Jack 2011
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Where did we queue to buy the commemorative crown pieces, the silver five-bobs that suddenly made sense of the term "half-crown", of which they were the vanished ancestors?
My memories of the Festival of Britain? 'Oh, not another queue' | Ian Jack 2011
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The great man had smiled at him then, and - perhaps mistaking him for a beggar himself - handed him a coin, a half-crown showing the profile of the mad old Lizard King, George III, which Orphan had kept ever since for good luck.
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And then to us, 'Who'll lend me a half-crown and a sovereign!'
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He stated that himself and wife and two older children, besides the two in the dock, occupied that room; he stated also that he occupied it because he could get no other room for the half-crown
THE CHILDREN 2010
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But that same night he raised from several sources a motley mound of coin: Spanish milled dollars, English crowns and shillings, a French half-crown.
Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010
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She holds up a half-crown and tosses it overboard but no one follows it; she is warned by Dennitson and Captain Bentley not to throw another crown over the side but she does so and the boy follows it over the rail.
“I am only a wild girl, and I am afraid of the world....” 2008
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But that same night he raised from several sources a motley mound of coin: Spanish milled dollars, English crowns and shillings, a French half-crown.
Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010
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“But maybe, Madge, ye wad mind something about it, if I was to gie ye this half-crown?” said Sharpitlaw, taking out the piece of money.
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