sixpence 的定义
plural six·pence, six·penc·es for 2.
- British. a sum of six pennies.
- a cupronickel coin of the United Kingdom, the half of a shilling, formerly equal to six pennies: equal to two and one-half new pence after decimalization in 1971.
更多sixpence例句
- They just turn on a sixpence and go and look for something else.
- A friend of mine tells me that he smokes every day, at a cost of about sixpence a-week.
- Now, I would like to know in what other way so much enjoyment is to be bought for sixpence.
- It is certain that he restored every sixpence that had been deposited in the morning, and could not die until he had done so.
- On arriving he tendered the driver sixpence, which was strictly the fare, though but scant remuneration for the distance.
- A message can be sent from any postoffice at a cost of sixpence for the first ten words.