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pice

[pahys]

noun

plural

pice 
  1. a former bronze coin of British India, one quarter of an anna.

  2. paisa.



pice

/ paɪs /

noun

  1. a former Indian coin worth one sixty-fourth of a rupee

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of pice1

First recorded in 1615–20; paisa ( def. )
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Word History and Origins

Origin of pice1

C17: from Mahratti paisā
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Example Sentences

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My favorite tests for sharpening knives is the paper trick: Simply sliding a knife through a singular pice of printer paper and seeing if it slices cleanly — or merely cutting into a tomato.

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It’s the kind of place where barely an inch of wall space isn’t adorned with some pice of memorabilia.

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He was 47 when he took the leap into his second career and bought a pice of land north of San Francisco.

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My dog is called Abby and she's a huge pice of log too.

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The idea is that the player should be able to destroy literally anything, with every pice of glass, concrete and metal behaving just as it would in an absurd reality, crashing through other buildings, twisting down to the street and even leaving all of its debris around the for the entirety of a game.

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