Definitions
Former English silver coin worth four pennies.
Word origin
From Middle English grot, from Old English grot, from Proto-West Germanic *grot, from Proto-Germanic *grutą, related to *greutą. More at grit, grout.
Used in a sentence
“The Widdow that hath but a pan of braſſe, And ſcarſe a houſe to hide her head, Sometimes no penny to buy her bread, Muſt pay her Landlord many a groat, Or twil be puld out of her throat:”
“The needy groom, that never finger'd groat, Would make a miracle of thus much coin …”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Old fourpenny coin”5 letters
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