tenpenny
- noun
- /ˈtɛnˌpɛni/
- Specialized
:
clavo de diez peniques
- To build the sturdy furniture, you'll need plenty of tenpenny nails.
- tenpenny nail
Examples
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For the men, he had English ax heads, tenpenny nails, hammerheads, and belt buckles - mostly of horn, but one or two special ones of hard iron.
Fiction book (1994) -
The carpenter used a tenpenny nail to secure the wooden beams together.
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They've pushed me aside, sent me up to this tenpenny post.
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It’s a waste of tenpenny stamp.
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He purchased a box of tenpenny nails for his home improvement project.
Synonyms
1
6.4
A nail about three inches long used for holding pieces of wood together
A 2.5 inch nail used to join pieces of wood
A nail about two inches long used in carpentry
A small metal pin about one and a half inches long that holds pieces of wood together
Compounds
- Specialized
1
6.4
A nail about three inches long used for holding pieces of wood together
How Long
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Tenpenny (the nail) gets its name from an old size system where ten and penny showed the nail's length. A tenpenny is about 'three inches long', so the name tells you the nail's size.