fourpenny nail

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   a nail 1.5 inches long

   Broadernail

Questions about fourpenny nail

What does fourpenny nail mean?

fourpenny nail means "a nail 1.5 inches long".

Is fourpenny nail a common word?

fourpenny nail is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.