Crossword-Solution: SIXPENCE 8 letters, 13 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 19

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Word Word Type Definition
Sixpence n. An English silver coin of the value of six pennies; half
a shilling, or about twelve cents.

We have 13 clues for the answer “SIXPENCE”

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Old British coin sometimes placed in a Christmas pudding 1 answer
Half a shilling 1 answer
Money in a classic song title 1 answer
former British and Australian coin worth six pennies 1 answer
sixpenny bit 1 answer
sixpenny coin 1 answer
Christmas pudding surprise 1 answer
Tanner. 4 answers
Old British coin 8 answers
A SMALL COIN OF THE UNITED KINGDOM WORTH SIX PENNIES 11 answers
BRITISH coin 27 answers
English coin 30 answers
Coin 53 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with SIXPENCE (5)

Bob Cratchit told them how he had a situation in his eye for Master Peter, which would bring in, if obtained, full five-and-sixpence weekly.
A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens 1992
Gastrel said: “You cannot expect so young a child to know the meaning of such words.” He then said: “My dear, how many pence are there in _sixpence_?” “I cannot tell, sir,” was the half-terrified reply.
What Is Man? And Other Stories Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 1993
When the ferryboat with her wild freight pushed into the stream, nobody cared sixpence for the wasted time but the captain of the craft.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 1993
What, then, must it have been to Hepzibah and Clifford,—so time-stricken as they were, yet so like children in their inexperience,—as they left the doorstep, and passed from beneath the wide shelter of the Pyncheon Elm! They were wandering all abroad, on precisely such a pilgrimage as a child often meditates, to the world’s end, with perhaps a sixpence and a biscuit in his pocket.
The House of the Seven Gables Nathaniel Hawthorne 1993
Death is Nature’s remedy for all things, and why not Legislation’s? Accordingly, the forger was put to Death; the utterer of a bad note was put to Death; the unlawful opener of a letter was put to Death; the purloiner of forty shillings and sixpence was put to Death; the holder of a horse at Tellson’s door, who made off with it, was put to Death; the coiner of a bad shilling was put to Death; the sounders of three-fourths of the notes in the whole gamut of Crime, were put to Death.
A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens 1994

Quotes with SIXPENCE (3)

Every faculty you have, your power of thinking or of moving your limbs from moment to moment, is given you by God. If you devoted every moment of your whole life exclusively to His service you could not give Him anything that was not in a sense his own already ... It is like a small child going to its father and saying, 'Daddy, give me sixpence to buy you a birthday present.' It is all very nice and proper, but only an idiot would think that the father is sixpence to the good on the transaction.
C. S. Lewis Mere Christianity
Look around you. Your world-hosts are all in mutiny, in confusion, destitution; on the eve of fiery wreck and madness! They will not march farther for you, on the sixpence a day and supply-demand principle; they will not; nor ought they, nor can they. Ye shall reduce them to order, begin reducing them. to order, to just subordination; noble loyalty in return for noble guidance. Their souls are driven nigh mad; let yours be sane and ever saner.
Thomas Carlyle Past and Present
Any capitalist . . . who had made sixty thousand pounds out of sixpence, always professed to wonder why the sixty thousand nearest Hands didn't each make sixty thousand pounds out of sixpence, and more or less reproached them every one for not accomplishing the little feat. What I did you can do. Why don't you go and do it?
Charles Dickens Hard Times
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Newsday, NYT.

Used 3 times in crossword archives (2001–2008).