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Plack  n.  A small copper coin formerly current in Scotland, worth less than a cent. "With not a plack in the pocket of the poet."





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"Plack" Quotes from Famous Books



... 'em; and they've taken every plack and bawbee they could lay their thieving hands upon," he mumbled. "'Tis like the dogs; to stay on here and eat and drink me out of house and home, and then to scurry off when I'm ...
— The Master of Appleby • Francis Lynde
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... making inquiries from the printer, and she did not see or hear what was passing close to her: the coachman was intent upon the examination of his shillings. Betty, with great assurance, reproved the printer's devil for touching such lace with his plack fingers. ...
— Tales And Novels, Volume 1 • Maria Edgeworth
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... fra' the States. His claithes look pretty nice. As a gen'al thing them people fra' the States hae plenty o' plack in their pockets. What do you ...
— Adele Dubois - A Story of the Lovely Miramichi Valley in New Brunswick • Mrs. William T. Savage
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