groat

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
groat
    n 1: a former English silver coin worth four pennies [syn:
         {fourpence}, {groat}]
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
groat \groat\ (gr[add]t or gr[=o]t), n. [LG. gr[=o]te, orig.,
   great, that is, a great piece of coin, larger than other
   coins in former use. See {Great}.]
   1. An old English silver coin, equal to four pence.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. Any small sum of money.
      [1913 Webster]
    
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
103 Moby Thesaurus words for "groat":
      ace, air pollution, atom, attritus, bawbee, bit, bran, cosmic dust,
      crown, crumb, crumble, dab, dole, dollar, dot, dram, dribble,
      driblet, dust, dust ball, dwarf, efflorescence, fallout, farina,
      farthing, filings, fiver, fleck, florin, flour, flyspeck,
      fourpence, fourpenny, fragment, gobbet, grain, granule, grits,
      groats, guinea, hair, half crown, half dollar, halfpenny, handful,
      iota, jot, kittens, lint, little, little bit, mag, meal, meg,
      minim, minimum, minutiae, mite, modicum, molecule, monkey, mote,
      new pence, np, nutshell, ounce, p, particle, pebble, pence, penny,
      pinch, pittance, point, pony, pound, powder, pussies, quid,
      raspings, sawdust, scruple, shilling, sixpence, smidgen, smitch,
      smut, soot, speck, spoonful, spot, tenner, thimbleful, threepence,
      threepenny bit, thrippence, tiny bit, tittle, trifling amount,
      trivia, tuppence, twopence, whit

    
from Who Was Who: 5000 B. C. to Date
GROAT

John, proprietor of a celebrated house located some
distance from Land's End.
    

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