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Meaning of tin penny | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

A duty paid to tithingmen.

UK, historical

Examples

“He further said, that the plaintiff had sometimes at Easter, when he received his Easter dues, received some payment for some kinds of small tithes in respect of those tenements which were no part of the Demesne Lands, viz. for every milch cow, three halfpence ; […] and a tithe penny, otherwise tin penny, otherwise tithing penny, as a modus in lieu of all other small tithes and vicarial dues in kind,”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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