noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   A milled sixpence. obsolete

   "seven groats in mill-sixpences"

Example

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"a mill sixpence of my mother's I loved as dearly, and a two-pence I had to spend over and above[…]"

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