FARTHING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does farthing mean? 

• FARTHING (noun)
  The noun FARTHING has 1 sense:

1. a former British bronze coin worth a quarter of a penny

  Familiarity information: FARTHING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FARTHING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A former British bronze coin worth a quarter of a penny

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Hypernyms ("farthing" is a kind of...):

coin (a flat metal piece (usually a disc) used as money)

 Context examples 

“I'll have my dues, and not a farthing over. Hold Mrs. Crossley's bag.”

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

I have been playing at nine-pins, he answered, and have lost a couple of farthings.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

I offered to leave my goods in security for payment of my freight: but the captain protested he would not receive one farthing.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Then, said Traddles, you must prepare to disgorge all that your rapacity has become possessed of, and to make restoration to the last farthing.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

There, with that jingle in his head, a bracer on his left hand, a shooting glove on his right, and a farthing's-worth of wax in his girdle, what more doth a bowman need?

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

My poor Charles, who had the finest, most generous spirit in the world, would have divided his last farthing with him; and I know that his purse was open to him; I know that he often assisted him.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

I was very angry, for this was the third demand during the month. ‘You shall not have a farthing from me,’ I cried, on which he bowed and left the room without another word.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“No,” said her father; “Wickham's a fool if he takes her with a farthing less than ten thousand pounds. I should be sorry to think so ill of him, in the very beginning of our relationship.”

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Doctor, when a man's steering as near the wind as me—playing chuck-farthing with the last breath in his body, like—you wouldn't think it too much, mayhap, to give him one good word?

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

“It would not be amiss,” said Hordle John, “if under his girdle he had four farthings'-worth of wine.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)