Farthing
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Farthing is an old word meaning a fourth or a quarter. In modern usage it could refer to:
- An old British coin valued one quarter of a penny: see History of the farthing
- The Irish farthing coin, a part of predecimal Irish coinage
- An old subdivision of the English county of Gloucestershire: see hundred
- A subdivision of the fictional The Shire: see Farthing (Middle-earth)
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