单词 | double ten |
释义 | > as lemmasdouble ten a. Short for tenpenny nail at penny n. 5 (i.e. costing 10d. a hundred); double ten, a nail costing the double of the tenpenny (i.e. 20d. a hundred). ΚΠ 1572 in A. Feuillerat Documents Office of Revels Queen Elizabeth (1908) 175 Nayles vc of single tenns—iiij s. ij d. c. Dubble tens—xviij d. 1629 Accts. St. John's Hosp., Canterbury (Canterbury Cathedral Archives: CCA-U13/5) Itm halfe a hundred of double tennes xd. 1665 J. Webb Vindic. Stone-Heng (1725) 124 An huge old Nail, in Shape somewhat like those which we call commonly double Tens, or Spikes, such as are used in Scaffolding. 1717 J. Tabor in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 30 559 Large Iron Nails..not quite so long, as those we call double Tenns. < as lemmas |
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