Definition of "tenpence" [tenpence]

• A coin worth ten old pennies. (noun)
• The value of ten old pennies. (noun)

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• "Women, and plenty to spare, are found to toil under the sweat-shop masters for tenpence a day of fourteen hours."
• "He had to pawn his watch to get money & was found by a Policeman wandering about in the streets of Exeter at midnight with tenpence in his pocket."
• "For, in splendour of appearance, he was at least equal to the Deputy Usher of the Black Rod; and the idea of his carrying, as Jeremy Diddler would say, ‘such a thing as tenpence’ away with him, seemed monstrous."