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Fourpenny

adjective
1.
Used of nail size; 1 3/8 in or 3.8 cm long.



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"Fourpenny" Quotes from Famous Books



... clothes a-soaking as I bade thee ere thou wentest forth to take thy pleasure, and left me a-slaving hither! Get thee to thy work, baggage! Thou art worth but one half as many pence as there be shillings in a groat! [A fourpenny-piece.] I'll learn thee to gad ...
— For the Master's Sake - A Story of the Days of Queen Mary • Emily Sarah Holt
... mean and miserable to do anything but count your dibs. He's so mean, gentlemen, that when he dropped a sixpence into the plate at church instead of a fourpenny-piece, he stopped his wife's cat's-meat allowance for a week ...
— The Chequers - Being the Natural History of a Public-House, Set Forth in - a Loafer's Diary • James Runciman


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