sixpenny nail

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   a nail 2 inches long

   Broadernail

Questions about sixpenny nail

What does sixpenny nail mean?

sixpenny nail means "a nail 2 inches long".

Is sixpenny nail a common word?

sixpenny 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.