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picayune
Something of very little value; a trifle: not worth a picayune.
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  1. Something of very little value; a trifle: not worth a picayune.
  2. (US, archaic) A small coin of the value of six and a quarter cents; a fippenny bit.
  3. A coin of small value, as a former Spanish half-real of Louisiana
tanner
A male given name, modern transferred use of the surname.
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  1. A male given name, modern transferred use of the surname.
  2. A person whose work is tanning hides
  3. An occupational surname for a tanner.
Find another word for sixpence. In this page you can discover 6 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for sixpence, like: half a shilling, , picayune, tanner, half-a-bob and money.

Sentence Examples

  • Passports granted in England are subject to a stamp duty of sixpence.

  • At last he borrowed sixpence from the stage-manager and returned home, carrying all his property tied up in a handkerchief.

  • The direct taxation is represented by a tax of one penny in the pound on the unimproved value of land, sixpence in the pound on the annual income derived in the state from all sources, except the use and occupation of land and improvements thereon.

  • The expenses of a parish council may not, without the consent of a parish meeting, exceed the amount of a rate of threepence in the for the financial year; but with the consent of the parish meeting the limit may be increased to sixpence, exclusive of expenses under the adoptive acts.

  • The Cornhill followed the same example in 1883, reducing its price to sixpence and devoting its pages to light reading.

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