ninepennyadj.n.

1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. 432 The officious nine penny masse.

1682 T. D'Urfey Royalist i. i. 10 I remember when thou wer't elected Sheriff of Worcester, thou ne'r would'st Dine beyond a Ninepeny Ordinary.

1706 E. Ward Rambling Fuddle-caps 27 Thy Lodging must be in some Ninepenny Garret, Thy drink Porters guzzle much oftner than Claret.

1726 J. Swift Let. to Pope 5 Dec. in Lett. Dr. Swift (1741) 60 I am strongly tempted to send a parcel to be printed..and make a nine-penny jobb for the Bookseller.

1814 J. Shirreff Gen. View Agric. Shetland 21 Rent is paid by the merk of land..merks being divided into different classes, such as sixpenny, ninepenny, and twelvepenny merks.

1865 Ladies' Repository Jan. 51 It [sc. the dress] was nothing but a nine-penny print of a deep pink hue, but it was neatly made.

1894 Outing 24 371/1 At Wrexham I passed the night in a nine-penny room.

1914 S. Lewis Our Mr. Wrenn v. 63 Mr. Wrenn could hardly keep his feet on the pavement as they scampered to it and got ninepenny seats.

1939 J. B. Priestley Let People Sing ii. 44 What about ordering the Ninepenny Special—steak-and-kidney pudding and peas?

2001 Scotsman (Electronic ed.) 4 July Those of us who bought our perfume in ninepenny bottles.

1694 T. Hyde Hist. Nerdiludii 204 in Mandragorias Alia habet Nomina secundum numerum frustulorum quibus luditur..: sicut est Marlin: alias three mens Morals, & nine mens Morals, & nine penny miracle,..alias three penny Moris, aut five penny Moris, aut nine penny Moris [etc.].

1826 in W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1827) II. 983 There is an ancient game, played by the ‘shepherds of Salisbury Plain’..called ‘Ninepenny Marl’.

1894 A. B. Gomme Trad. Games I. i. 417 ‘Nine Men's Morris’, in Gloucestershire called ‘Ninepenny Morris’, was..largely practised by boys.

1969 E. H. Pinto Treen 222 Merels, one of the oldest and most universally popular games in all parts of Great Britain in the past... Alternative names..are legion..ninepenny marl and madells in Wiltshire;..and most generally, nine-men's-morris.

1830 W. Scott Lett. Demonol. & Witchcraft iv. 138 I have several pieces to show, consisting of ninepennies, thirteen-pence-halfpennies.

1845 J. F. Cooper Satanstoe I. v. 80 Ah! here is just the money—three ninepennies, or three York shillings.

1886 T. Hardy Mayor of Casterbridge xiii, in Graphic 6 Feb. 162/1 I'm in such a low key with drinking nothing but small table ninepenny this last week or two.

1992 E. Rhodes Cara's Land (BNC) 78 ‘How about it?’ ‘How about what?’ ‘The ninepennies—with David Niven and me!’

2000 Way we Were (Electronic ed.) 30 May They charged sixpence at the back and ninepence at the front. If I met a bot from school I insisted on going in the ninepennies.