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Definition of Sixpenny nail
1. Noun. A nail 2 inches long.
Definition of Sixpenny nail
1. Noun. (dated) A nail 2 inches (5.1 centimeters) in length. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sixpenny Nail
Literary usage of Sixpenny nail
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Mechanics Magazine (1824)
"A sixpenny nail driven one inch into dry elm, across the grain, ... The progressive
depths of a sixpenny nail, driven into a dry Christiana deal by simple ..."
2. Appletons' Cyclopædia of Applied Mechanics: A Dictionary of Mechanical by Appleton, firm, publishers, New York (1880)
"The percussive force required to drive the common sixpenny nail to the depth of
Ц in. into dry Christiania deal, with a cast-iron weight of 6.275 Ibs., ..."
3. The American Builder's General Price Book and Estimator by James Gallier (1836)
"The percussive force required to drive the common sixpenny nail to the depth of
one inch and a half into dry Christiana deal, with a cast iron weight of ..."
4. An Encyclopædia of Architecture: Historical, Theoretical, and Practical by Joseph Gwilt (1842)
"A sixpenny nail driven one inch into dry elm across the grain or fibres required
327 Ihs. to draw it out by direct force ; driven endwise into dry elm, ..."
5. Appletons' Cyclopædia of Applied Mechanics: A Dictionary of Mechanical by Park Benjamin, D. Appleton and Company (1880)
"The percussive force required to drive the common sixpenny nail to the depth of
1 ^ in. into dry Christiania deal, with a cast-iron weight of li.275 Ibs., ..."
6. A manual for naval cadets by John McNeill Boyd (1860)
"In other species of wood, the requisite force to extract the nail was different:
thus, to extract a common sixpenny nail from a depth of 1 inch out of dry ..."
7. The Engineer's & Mechanic's Encyclopeadia ...: The Machinery & Processes by Luke Hebert (1849)
"Thus, to extract a common sixpenny nail, from a depth of one inch, out of Dry
oak, required 507 Ibs. Dry beech 667 ,, Green sycamore 312 ,, From these ..."
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