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hearth-penny

noun

Etymology

From Middle English herthpeny, from Old English heorþpeniġ; from Old English heorþ (“hearth”) + Old English peniġ (“penny”).

  1. inherited from peniġ
  2. inherited from heorþ
  3. inherited from heorþpeniġ
  4. inherited from herthpeny

Definitions

  1. Synonym of Peter's pence.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for hearth-penny. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA