plack
nounUK /plak/ · /plæk/
Etymology From Middle Dutch placke (“name of a coin”). Cognate with Old High German pleh, bleh (“a thin leaf of metal, plate”). Compare plaque.
1
Obsolete A coin used in the Netherlands in the 15th and 16th centuries.
2
Northern England, Scotland, Historical A coin issued by James III of Scotland; also a 15th-16th century Scottish coin worth four Scots pennies.
- ‘Yes, I prayed you to grant my life, which is in your power. The saving of it would not have cost you a plack, yet you refused to do it.’1824, James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Oxford, published 2010, page 49:
- Derived terms
- plackless