tenpenny nail
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.58 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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."
- ""Al, I could bite a tenpenny nail in half and digest both pieces, too.""
- "He could still climb a scaffold like a monkey, still drive a ten-penny nail with one measured, massive, dead-on blow."