Definition of "sixpence" [six•pence]

• A coin formerly used in Britain and worth six pennies. (noun)
• The sum of six pennies. (noun)

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• "He went to a house that he knew of, and offered to chop some wood for sixpence, and with _that sixpence_ he bought the pipes."
• "A YOUNG spendthrift being apprised that he had given a shilling when sixpence would have been enough, remarked that "He knew no difference between a _shilling_ and _sixpence_.""
• ""They like things to be neat and new, and that sixpence is bent.""