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English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Middle Dutch placke (“name of a coin”). Cognate with Old High German pleh, bleh (“thin leaf of metal, plate”). Compare plaque.
Noun
plack (plural placks)
- (obsolete) A coin used in the Netherlands in the 15th and 16th centuries.
- (Scotland, Northern England, historical) A coin issued by James III of Scotland; also a 15th-16th century Scottish coin worth four Scots pennies.
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
Noun
plack
- Misspelling of plaque.
Scots
Etymology
Probably from West Flemish placke (“small coin”), related to French plaque, Medieval Latin placa. See English plaque.
Pronunciation
Noun
plack (plural placks)
- (historical) plack
- And than, besides his valiant acts, / At bridals he won many placks. (Robert Sempill, ‘The Piper of Kilbarchan’)