fourpenny
Americanadjective
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Carpentry.
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noting a nail 1.5 inches (3.8 centimeters) long.
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noting certain fine nails 1.375 inches (3.5 centimeters) long. 4d
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British. of the amount or value of fourpence.
adjective
Etymology
Origin of fourpenny
First recorded in 1375–1425; late Middle English. See four, penny
Example Sentences
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When he was a child-actor in London he used to steal waitresses' fourpenny tips to eke out his meagre lunches.
From Time Magazine Archive
The one penny and twopenny English issued in 1840 had letters in the lower corners only, the fourpenny, sixpenny, and one shilling had no letters.
From Harper's Round Table, October 8, 1895 by Various
There are two valuable triangular "Capes," however, namely, the fourpenny red and the penny blue, both of 1861.
From Peeps at Postage Stamps by Stanley Currie Johnson
Whatever Coleridge touched failed: his fourpenny paper, the Watchman, was an abortion; and the verses he wrote for a London paper did little for him.
From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, September, 1851 by Various
Let her ask her own heart, write again, abstain from sealing with a fourpenny bit, and spell "intense" with an "s," not a "c."
From Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) by Various
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