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Webster 1913 Edition


Mill-sixpence

Mill′-sixpence

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Noun.
A milled sixpence; – the sixpence being one of the first English coins milled (1561).

Definition 2024


mill-sixpence

mill-sixpence

English

Noun

mill-sixpence (plural mill-sixpences)

  1. (obsolete) A milled sixpence.
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Usage notes

  • The sixpence was one of the first English coins milled (in 1561).