Crossword-Solution: TENPENNY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Tenpenny | a. | Valued or sold at ten pence; as, a tenpenny cake. See 2d Penny, n. |
| Tenpenny | a. | Denoting a size of nails. See 1st Penny. |
We have 8 clues for the answer “TENPENNY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Denoting a 3" nail, so-called from its original cost | 1 answer |
| Designating a 3-inch nail. | 1 answer |
| Long nail | 1 answer |
| Size of nail | 1 answer |
| Three inches, nailwise | 1 answer |
| Nail size | 4 answers |
| Kind of nail | 5 answers |
| Nail | 41 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with TENPENNY (5)
William collects things--everything from tenpenny nails to teapots, I should say, and they're all there in his rooms.
They are natives of this soil; literally so; and if planted would grow as surely as a crowbar in Kentucky sprouts tenpenny nails.
The face, horribly seared by the frequent application of the red-hot poker, and further ornamented by the insertion, in the tip of the nose, of a tenpenny nail, yet smiled blandly in its less lacerated parts, and seemed, like a sturdy martyr, to provoke its tormentor to the commission of new outrages and insults.
Presently he was leading the way to the lounge—sumptuous piece in red morocco and yellow glazed crockery, with incredible vistas of settees and sofas and things, and there I found myself grouped with him in two excessively upholstered chairs with an earthenware Moorish table between us bearing coffee and Benedictine, and I was tasting the delights of a tenpenny cigar.
When left in the dark he will quiver and quail; And Vulcan has arms that would snap like a carrot, Before he could drive in a tenpenny nail.
Quotes with TENPENNY (1)
They were happier now than they would ever be again. A tenpenny tea set made Cam happy for days. She heard them stamping and crowing on the floor above her head the moment they woke. They came bustling along the passage. Then the door sprang open and in they came, fresh as roses, staring, wide awake, as if this coming into the dining-room after was a positive event to them, and so on, with one thing after another, all day long, until she went up to say good-night to them, and…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (1957–2018).