| 单词 | fourpenny nail |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfourpenny nail 2. fourpenny nail [see penny n.] : a nail 1½ in. long, of which 4 lbs. go to the ‘thousand’ (i.e. 10 nominal hundreds or 1120). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > fastenings > [noun] > nail > specific price or size of nail tenpenny nail1426 tenpenny nail1426 threepenny nail1429 fourpenny nail1481 sixpenny nail1486 fives1629 forty-penny nail1769 tenpenny1820 1481 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1883) II. 320 Et de dimidio centum de forpeny nayl. 1700 Moxon's Mech. Exercises: Bricklayers-wks. 8 Another sort are four Penny, and Six Penny Nails. 1850 J. Greenwood Sailor's Sea-bk. 135 Nails of sorts are 4, 6, 8..and 40-penny nails. < as lemmas |
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