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Eightpenny

adjective
1.
Used of nail size; 2 1/2 in or 6.4 cm long.



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"Eightpenny" Quotes from Famous Books



... Lancelots and Gueneveres, their enchanted castles, their bearded wizards, 'and such odd branches of learning.' There needs a winged griffin, at the very least, to carry them out of the everyday six-and-eightpenny world, or the whizz of an Excalibur to startle their drowsy imaginations into life. The beauties and the wonders of the universe died for them some centuries ago; they went out with Friar Bacon and the invention of gunpowder. Praised ...
— The Bon Gaultier Ballads • William Edmonstoune Aytoun


Words linked to "Eightpenny" :   eightpenny nail, sized


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