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groat

(grōt)

An English silver coin worth four pence, used from the 14th to the 17th century.

[Middle English grot, from Middle Dutch groot, a thick, large coin, translation of Medieval Latin (dēnārius) grossus, thick (denarius).]

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groat

(ɡrəʊt)

(Historical Terms) an English silver coin worth four pennies, taken out of circulation in the 17th century

[C14: from Middle Dutch groot, from Middle Low German gros, from Medieval Latin (denarius) grossus thick (coin); see groschen]

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groat

(groʊt)

n.

a former English silver coin equal to four pennies.

[1325–75; < Middle Dutch groot large, name of a large coin; see great]

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They would betray one's private life for a groat, for they hold nothing sacred.

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He was not rich, but would spend his last groat to be better dressed than others, and would rather deprive himself of many pleasures than allow himself to be seen in a shabby equipage or appear in the streets of Petersburg in an old uniform.

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He is not even indifferent; I hate and detest him."--"If you detest un never so much," cries Western, "you shall ha'un." This he bound by an oath too shocking to repeat; and after many violent asseverations, concluded in these words: "I am resolved upon the match, and unless you consent to it I will not give you a groat, not a single farthing; no, though I saw you expiring with famine in the street, I would not relieve you with a morsel of bread.

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Take it from one who has studied the sect," says Gentleman, "from John o' Groat's to Land's End, and back again."

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Once a begging friar came limping along in a brown habit, imploring in a most dolorous voice to give him a single groat to buy bread wherewith to save himself from impending death.

One of them carried a young bittern which they had caught upon the moor, and they offered it to Alleyne for a silver groat. Very glad he was to get safely past them, for, with their bristling red beards and their fierce blue eyes, they were uneasy men to bargain with upon a lonely moor.

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"He's as far awa' from the truth as John o' Groat's House is from Jericho."

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Now I am without money--without a single groat. But I must not delay a moment; I must leave by the 9:30 train.

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I have not about me so much as a clipped groat. Do me no harm, I pray you, but let me depart in peace.

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POLICE have branded the behaviour of those involved in a Groat Market incident involving a car as "unacceptable" as they work to trace the victims.

Police in hunt for road-rage driver

Desmond found an old silver coin called a groat, and he also found some fossils on the beach and a small piece of amber.

TALES FROM THE PAST

The area immediately west of Edmonton's Victoria Park and golf course, known in a previous historical incarnation as the Groat's Flat, alternately the Groat Flats, may have historical significance as the site of one of the earliest of these fur trade era forts.