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eightpenny

/eyt-pen-ee/US // ˈeɪtˌpɛn i //

八便士,八分钱,八分之一,八仙过海

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : noting a nail 2½ inches long.
    • : costing or amounting to the sum of eight pennies. Symbol: 8d

Examples

  • From John Blane, during the same year, he purchased 2500 tenpenny nails and the same quantity of eightpenny nails.

  • It is rumoured that the former is in treaty with the latter for a pair of left-off six-and-eightpenny Clarences.

  • Eightpenny finishing nails are the best, three in each board, the heads being driven in to admit of puttying.

  • The large fivepenny, sixpenny, eightpenny, and shilling often had unusually wide margins when perforated.

  • Mrs Margaret looked wistfully at the fourteen-shilling crimson, and then manfully chose the six-and-eightpenny green.