plack

[ plak ]

noun

1. a very small copper coin used in Scotland in the 15th and 16th centuries as a four-penny piece.

Word History and Origins

Origin of plack¹

1425–75; late Middle English placke < Middle Dutch: name of a coin

Example Sentences

But, ere they came half gait to Concludendum, The fiend one plack was left for to defend him.

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Plack, plak, n. a small copper coin formerly current in Scotland, equal in value to the third part of an English penny.

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Will they not give us a letter of cursing for a plack, to last for a year, to curse all that look over our dyke?

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I wad hae thought better o' it had thou made it when it took the last plack i' thy pouch.

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As a gen'al thing them people fra' the States hae plenty o' plack in their pockets.

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