"tenpenny nail" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1841, Charles Dickens, chapter 67, in The Old Curiosity Shop",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1909, Joseph A. Altsheler, chapter 3, in The Last of the Chiefs",
          "text": "Al, I could bite a tenpenny nail in half and digest both pieces, too.",
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          "ref": "2001 August 26, Fred Chappell, “He was a man, not a super-rube”, in Chicago Sun-Times, (review of Ava's Man by Rick Bragg), page 16C",
          "text": "He could still climb a scaffold like a monkey, still drive a ten-penny nail with one measured, massive, dead-on blow.",
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        "A relatively large nail, three inches (7.62 centimeters) in length."
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        "(dated) A relatively large nail, three inches (7.62 centimeters) in length."
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          "word": "fourpenny nail"
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        {
          "word": "twelvepenny nail"
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          "word": "sixteenpenny nail"
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        {
          "word": "ten penny nail"
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          "word": "ten-penny nail"
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