Associations to the word «Groat»

Wiktionary

GROAT, noun. (chiefly in the plural) hulled grain
GROAT, noun. (archaic or historical) Any of various old coins of England and Scotland.
GROAT, noun. An historic English silver coin worth four English pennies, still minted as one of the set of Maundy coins.

Dictionary definition

GROAT, noun. A former English silver coin worth four pennies.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope