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mill-sixpences

mill-sixpences is the plural of mill-sixpence.

Meaning of mill-sixpence

Noun

mill-sixpence (plural mill-sixpences)

  1. (obsolete) A milled sixpence.
    • seven groats in mill-sixpencesc. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...

Questions about mill-sixpences

What is mill-sixpences the plural of?
Mill-sixpences is the plural of mill-sixpence.

Words near mill-sixpences in the dictionary

  1. mill-leat
  2. mill-leats
  3. mill-race
  4. mill-races
  5. mill-sixpence
  6. mill-sixpences
  7. mill-stone
  8. mill-stones
  9. mill-turn
  10. mill-turns
  11. mill-wand

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