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Definition of Tenpenny nail
1. Noun. A nail 3 inches long.
Definition of Tenpenny nail
1. Noun. (dated) A relatively large nail, three inches (7.62 centimeters) in length. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tenpenny Nail
Literary usage of Tenpenny nail
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Personal Adventures and Anecdotes of an Old Officer by James Peter Robertson (1906)
"... experiences—Manchester— A singular old gentleman—Dublin—Prince George of
Cambridge and the tenpenny nail—The Smith O'Brien Rebellion—Maryborough—Colonel ..."
2. A Biographical History of England: from Egbert the Great to the Revolution by James Granger (1824)
"... with determined resolution, declaring, " That he'd loosen the pope from his
chair, though he were fastened thereto with a tenpenny nail. ..."
3. Abraham Lincoln, the Liberator: A Biographical Sketch by Charles Wallace French (1891)
"It failed me as a clevis- bolt, and the thing won't even make a tenpenny nail!
But I'll tell you, old fellow, what it will make,' and he put it in the fire ..."
4. A Collection of Remarkable Cases in Surgery by Paul Fitzsimmons Eve (1857)
"... for fracture caused by a tenpenny nail entering the cranium. ... and the child
impaling itself on a " tenpenny" nail, which was sticking in it. ..."
5. Our Young Folks by John Townsend Trowbridge, Lucy Larcom, Gail Hamilton (1868)
"... then I say you 've got a head and so has a tenpenny nail, and one is just as
wise as the other. But there 's one comfort. If you think hard and long, ..."
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