1.  (crown·piece.) = CROWN 8 b; in modern use applied to the large silver coin of the value of five shillings.

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1648.  Venice Looking-glass, 10. He drew out an halfe crown peece.

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1710.  Steele, Tatler, No. 245, ¶ 2. A Crown-Piece with the Breeches.

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1773.  Wesley, Jrnl., 14 May. Holes larger than a crown-piece.

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1844.  Dickens, Mart. Chuz., iv. Such a trifling loan as a crown piece.

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  2.  (crow·npiece.) A piece that forms the crown or top of anything.

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1794.  W. Felton, Carriages (1801), II. 137. The Head Stale or Crownpiece is a Strap … on the top of the horse’s head.

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