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ha'penny
[hey-puh-nee, heyp-nee]
ha'penny
/ ˈheɪpnɪ /
noun
a variant spelling of halfpenny
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"We didn't have two ha'pennies to rub together," Don remembers.
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“Your mother might want to put in her sixpence ha'penny, but...”
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"But it's the little details that are so heart-breaking. Her pathetic possessions: in her saddlebag she had 10 cigarettes for her brother-in-law, fivepence ha'penny and a handkerchief."
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In the 1920s each empty yielded a ha'penny, but by the 1980s it had risen to the princely sum of 10p.
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The tabletop travel game is a cross between bowls and shove ha'penny, where players aim to get their discs closest to the jack.
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