tenpenny

[ ten-pen-ee, -puh-nee ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

tenpenny

/ ˈtɛnpənɪ /

A late Middle English word dating back to 1400–50; ten, penny

Nails driven through the palms of her hands,—tenpenny nails,—under the hypnotic suggestion that she wasn't being hurt.

And with that he took out the two tenpenny nails with his fingers just as easy as if they had been put in by women.

They would not know how to exaggerate a broom-stick; for the life of them they could not exaggerate a tenpenny nail.

I don't call it just the thing to drive a tenpenny nail square through a lead pipe, pull it out, and say nothing about it.

She was in great want of the tenpenny piece, and she was going to sell herself to get it, when I gave it to her.

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