Denoting a 3" nail, so-called from its original cost

Usage examples of tenpenny.

And minutes later they stopped so that Annis might do her telephoning, armed with the handful of tenpenny pieces Jake had thoughtfully offered her.

The remaining space was taken by bundles of hinged ceiling planks set up with tenpenny nails and bangstick cartridges.

The face, horribly seared by the frequent application of the red-hot poker, and further ornamented by the insertion, in the tip of the nose, of a tenpenny nail, yet smiled blandly in its less lacerated parts, and seemed, like a sturdy martyr, to provoke its tormentor to the commission of new outrages and insults.

Each hinged plank had a tenpenny nail which would strike a cartridge percussion cap as soon as a Maggot stood on one.

Although most authorities called for the tenpenny nail in a situation like this, Sergeant Tri found them lacking in imagination.

More of a puncture wound, painful and annoying and messy, as if someone had driven a tenpenny nail into the fleshy part of her shoulder.

I never see a boy vet that couldn't go through a tenpenny nail, easy as not.

He had other causes for satisfaction: although she had scarcely a bolt of sailcloth or a tenpenny nail to spare once she had put herself to rights, the ship was now taut and trim and beautifully dry.

A tiny hole was chipped in the window glass just above the catch, and a rusty tenpenny nail was wedged in the corner between the window frame and sill, where he had left it.