plack

See also: Plack

English

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /plæk/, [pʰl̥æk]
  • (UK) IPA(key): /plak/, [pʰl̥ak]
  • Rhymes: -æk, -ak
  • Homophone: plaque

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)

  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.’

Noun

plack

  1. Misspelling of plaque.

Scots

Etymology

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

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /plak/

Noun

plack (plural placks)

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