farthing

The farthing was pretty common, but at one stage it got down to the quarter-farthing (roughly one-four-thousandths of a pound sterling).

But, some programs are worth billions of dollars and others aren't worth half a farthing.

This deeply insightful bit of time-tellery is worth Twenty-Five if it's worth a farthing!

If you can ride a regular bicycle, you can ride a penny farthing.

Parents should give their kid a penny farthing as a first bike.

Take a penny-farthing, shrink it down, put a motor in it.

They don't give a farthing about the box money, they want to eliminate every barrier to you handing over your sweet sweet credit card details.

You can stay on a penny farthing, but that's not advised.

I don't want open source tools to become equivalent to a mini penny farthing.

That's what penny-farthing people used to say about your bike.

Yes, there are very honest people who curse like sailors (fishermen especially [1]), likewise there are honest people who wouldn't throw about farthing filth about fornication willy-nilly[2].

The point of the penny-farthing is that you drive the front wheel directly with the pedals, but this seems to have the pedals in a spot where they would drive a chain, although there is no chain?

I reckon Wired's name for it is the best "Cute Electric Penny-Farthing".

This was the reason for the large wheels of the penny farthing (without a geared chain-driven transmission there was no other way to step the drive ratio), and created the somewhat obvious limitations on braking and inability to freewheel also present on modern-day "fixies".

You probably don't even ride a Penny Farthing.