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eightpenny
[ eyt-pen-ee ]
adjective
- noting a nail 2½ inches (6.4 centimeters) long.
- costing or amounting to the sum of eight pennies. : 8d
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Word History and Origins
Origin of eightpenny1
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Example Sentences
From John Blane, during the same year, he purchased 2500 tenpenny nails and the same quantity of eightpenny nails.
It is rumoured that the former is in treaty with the latter for a pair of left-off six-and-eightpenny Clarences.
Eightpenny finishing nails are the best, three in each board, the heads being driven in to admit of puttying.
The large fivepenny, sixpenny, eightpenny, and shilling often had unusually wide margins when perforated.
Mrs Margaret looked wistfully at the fourteen-shilling crimson, and then manfully chose the six-and-eightpenny green.
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