tenpenny nail

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   a nail 3 inches long

   Broadernail

Questions about tenpenny nail

What does tenpenny nail mean?

tenpenny nail means "a nail 3 inches long".

Is tenpenny nail a common word?

tenpenny 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.