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Farthing
Farthing
is an old word meaning a
quarter
. In modern usage it could refer to
An old British coin valued one quarter of a
penny
: see
History of the farthing
The
Irish farthing coin
a part of predecimal
Irish coinage
An old subdivision of the English county of
Gloucestershire
- see
hundred
A subdivision of the fictional
The Shire
: see
Farthing (Middle-earth)
See also:
riding
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