threepence

IPA: θrˈipʌns

(uncountable) The amount of money equal to that of three pence (old or new).
(countable, historical) A former (pre-decimalisation) British or Irish coin worth three old pence.

Examples of "threepence" in Sentences

He had to give threepence for a copy of that paper.
He only had threepence a week pocket-money and half a-crown seemed riches to him.
Room and board, all the bread you care to carry home at the end of the day, and threepence a week.
While he gambled away copper threepence and silver solis on bad rolls, he listened to the talk at the table.
If you doubt the truth of this statement you have only to come round to my place, where you can see for yourself the threepence, which is still in my possession.
Such seductive scraps of meat, which would make a breakfast nourishing as well as relishing, possibly even what called itself a dinner, blushing to see themselves labelled threepence or fourpence!
He said that every cat in the beginning of the world had ninepence and that it gave threepence to have nine lives, threepence to see in the dark, and threepence that we might leave it a plateful of milk every day.
That the same authority which can force a citizen to contribute threepence only of his property for the support of any one establishment may force him to conform to any other establishment in all cases whatsoever?
To bring the value of the precious metals nearer to a par, the Primate, Boulter, who was chiefly trusted by the British Government in the administration of Ireland, published a proclamation reducing the value of the gold coin threepence in each guinea.