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plack

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English

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Etymology 1

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From Middle Dutch placke (name of a coin). Cognate with Old High German pleh, bleh (thin leaf of metal, plate). Compare plaque.

Noun

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plack (plural placks)

  1. (obsolete) A coin used in the Netherlands in the 15th and 16th centuries. [15th–17th c.]
  2. (Scotland, Northern England, historical) A coin issued by James III of Scotland; also a 15th-16th century Scottish coin worth four Scots pennies. [from 15th c.]
    • 1824, James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Oxford, published 2010, page 49:
      ‘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.’

Etymology 2

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Noun

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plack

  1. Misspelling of plaque.

Scots

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Etymology

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Probably from West Flemish placke (small coin), related to French plaque, Medieval Latin placa. See English plaque.

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Noun

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plack (plural placks)

  1. (historical) plack
    And than, besides his valiant acts, / At bridals he won many placks. (Robert Sempill, ‘The Piper of Kilbarchan’)