FOURPENNY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fourpenny mean? 

• FOURPENNY (adjective)
  The adjective FOURPENNY has 1 sense:

1. used of nail size; 1 3/8 in or 3.8 cm long

  Familiarity information: FOURPENNY used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FOURPENNY (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Used of nail size; 1 3/8 in or 3.8 cm long

Similar:

sized (having a specified size)

 Context examples 

Never a month but I've given you a silver fourpenny for yourself.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

When I dined regularly and handsomely, I had a saveloy and a penny loaf, or a fourpenny plate of red beef from a cook's shop; or a plate of bread and cheese and a glass of beer, from a miserable old public-house opposite our place of business, called the Lion, or the Lion and something else that I have forgotten.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

And altogether I paid pretty dear for my monthly fourpenny piece, in the shape of these abominable fancies.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

He had taken me aside one day and promised me a silver fourpenny on the first of every month if I would only keep my weather-eye open for a seafaring man with one leg and let him know the moment he appeared.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)