GROAT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does groat mean? 

• GROAT (noun)
  The noun GROAT has 1 sense:

1. a former English silver coin worth four pennies

  Familiarity information: GROAT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GROAT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A former English silver coin worth four pennies

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

fourpence; groat

Hypernyms ("groat" is a kind of...):

coin (a flat metal piece (usually a disc) used as money)

 Context examples 

She and I, Alleyne, broke the lucky groat together ere we parted, and she wears my ring upon her finger.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Here is a groat apiece, and you may go.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

One of them carried a young bittern which they had caught upon the moor, and they offered it to Alleyne for a silver groat.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Once a begging friar came limping along in a brown habit, imploring in a most dolorous voice to give him a single groat to buy bread wherewith to save himself from impending death.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)