Definition of Sixpenny nail

1. Noun. A nail 2 inches long.

Generic synonyms: Nail

Definition of Sixpenny nail

1. Noun. (dated) A nail 2 inches (5.1 centimeters) in length. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sixpenny Nail

sixes
sixes and nines
sixfold
sixfoldness
sixgill
sixgills
sixies
sixish
sixling
sixmos
sixness
sixpence
sixpences
sixpenny
sixpenny nail
sixscore
sixscores
sixshooter
sixshooters
sixsome
sixsomes
sixte
sixteen
sixteen-penny nail
sixteen hundred
sixteen penny nail
sixteenfold
sixteenish

Literary usage of Sixpenny nail

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Mechanics Magazine (1824)
"A sixpenny nail driven one inch into dry elm, across the grain, ... The progressive depths of a sixpenny nail, driven into a dry Christiana deal by simple ..."

2. Appletons' Cyclopædia of Applied Mechanics: A Dictionary of Mechanical by Appleton, firm, publishers, New York (1880)
"The percussive force required to drive the common sixpenny nail to the depth of Ц in. into dry Christiania deal, with a cast-iron weight of 6.275 Ibs., ..."

3. The American Builder's General Price Book and Estimator by James Gallier (1836)
"The percussive force required to drive the common sixpenny nail to the depth of one inch and a half into dry Christiana deal, with a cast iron weight of ..."

4. An Encyclopædia of Architecture: Historical, Theoretical, and Practical by Joseph Gwilt (1842)
"A sixpenny nail driven one inch into dry elm across the grain or fibres required 327 Ihs. to draw it out by direct force ; driven endwise into dry elm, ..."

5. Appletons' Cyclopædia of Applied Mechanics: A Dictionary of Mechanical by Park Benjamin, D. Appleton and Company (1880)
"The percussive force required to drive the common sixpenny nail to the depth of 1 ^ in. into dry Christiania deal, with a cast-iron weight of li.275 Ibs., ..."

6. A manual for naval cadets by John McNeill Boyd (1860)
"In other species of wood, the requisite force to extract the nail was different: thus, to extract a common sixpenny nail from a depth of 1 inch out of dry ..."

7. The Engineer's & Mechanic's Encyclopeadia ...: The Machinery & Processes by Luke Hebert (1849)
"Thus, to extract a common sixpenny nail, from a depth of one inch, out of Dry oak, required 507 Ibs. Dry beech 667 ,, Green sycamore 312 ,, From these ..."

Other Resources:

Search for Sixpenny nail on Dictionary.com!Search for Sixpenny nail on Thesaurus.com!Search for Sixpenny nail on Google!Search for Sixpenny nail on Wikipedia!

Search