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-penny definition

-penny (pen′ē, pə nē)

  1. costing a (specified) number of pennies
  2. having a size designated as (a specified number) a sixpenny nail is larger than a fourpenny nail, but the numbers in their designations do not specify units of length, weight, etc.

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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