"ha'pence" meaning in English

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          "word": "more kicks than ha'pence"
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          "ref": "1866, James Greenwood, The true history of a little ragamuffin, page 68:",
          "text": "\"Give us hold of the three ha'pence. Cut away with you, and if you are gone as long as a minute, see what you'll catch.\" \"Give him the three-ha'pence and cut away !\"",
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          "ref": "c. 1930, Marriott Edgar, Three Ha'pence A Foot:",
          "text": "Now Maple were Sam's Monopoly;\nThat means it were all 'is to cut,\nAnd nobody else 'adn't got none;\nSo 'e asked Noah three ha'pence a foot.",
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          "text": "That's why chaps like me, who take their work seriously, get more kicks than ha'pence. Ninety per cent of the men who outrank me got where they did by a word in the right ear at the right time...Give Us This Day, published by Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN",
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          "text": "2010 July 22, George Monbiot, The Guardian, George Monbiot's Blog,How scrapping the SDC to save money will cost the taxpayer a fortune\nJunking it is the definitive false economy: spoiling the ship for a ha' pence of tar."
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