fourpence's Usage Examples:

Their aim was to abolish all villein-service, and to wring from their lords the commutation of all manorial customs and obligations for a small rentfourpence an acre was generally the sum suggested.

The rebels at first demanded no more than that Richard should declare villeinage abolished, and that all feudal dues and services should be commuted for a rent of fourpence an acre.

In the seventeenth century it provided accommodation for three poor women who received fourpence a week.

Get the TV Times every Friday -- only fourpence!Everyone above fifteen years old had to pay fourpence.

The payment for tuition varies from fourpence or fivepence to tenpence a month for each child.

From 1279 there was a new coinage which included the first groat or fourpence.

Synonyms:

coin, groat,

Antonyms:

reverse, head, tail,