Harrington
. A farthing. So called from Lord Harrington, to whom James I. granted a patent for making them of brass. Drunken Barnaby says—
“Thence to Harrington be it spoken,
For name-sake I gave a token
To a beggar that did crave it.”
“I will not bate a Harrington of the sum.”
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Entry taken from
Dictionary of Phrase and Fable,
edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.