Tenpenny: Definition and part of speech

Tenpenny

  1. a. Denoting a size of nails. See 1st Penny.
  2. a. Valued or sold at ten pence; as, a tenpenny cake. See 2d Penny, n.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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