sixpenny nail old use , auch: six-penny nail , auch: six penny nail

Then nail the plywood base onto the frame with sixpenny nails.

When he pulled in front of her house and saw that her car was gone, he could have chewed a fistful of sixpenny nails.

He got some sixpenny nails and a hammer from the hardware shop in town, dragged several boards out of the scrap heap, put together a stand and painted a sign.

They both watched carefully as three-year-old Henry Bowman industriously tapped the hammer on the broad head of the sixpenny nail he pinched between the small thumb and forefinger of his left hand.