GROAT


Meaning of GROAT in English

n. hist. 1 a silver coin worth four old pence. 2 archaic a small sum (don't care a groat).

[ ME f. MDu. groot, orig. = great, i.e. thick (penny): cf. GROSCHEN ]

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