Farthing
Farthing is an old word meaning a fourth or a quarter. In modern usage it could refer to: Farthing (British coin), an old British coin valued one quarter of a penny Farthing (Irish coin), its counterpart among the predecimal Irish coins farthing, an old subdivision of various regions into four parts in northern Europe, mainly the English county of Gloucestershire, the Swedish province of Jämtland and the republic of Iceland. J. R. R. Tolkien also used the term for the subdivisions of his fictional country, the Shire Farthing (novel), a novel written by Jo Walton The Animals of Farthing Wood, the first of a series of children's books written by Colin Dann farthing, used in the King James Version of the Bible to translate κοδράντης (kodrantes, quadrans), a Roman coin
Translation of "Farthing"
Hebrew: פרת'ינג, Swedish: Fjärding.
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