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plack
[ plak ]
noun
- a very small copper coin used in Scotland in the 15th and 16th centuries as a four-penny piece.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of plack1
1425–75; late Middle English placke < Middle Dutch: name of a coin
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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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