A sixpenny piece Piece An artistic creation, such as a painting, sculpture, musical composition, literary work, etc. She played two beautiful pieces on the piano. Piece An article published in the press. Today's paper has an interesting piece on medical research. Piece (military) An artillery...
a sixpenny piece An artistic creation, such as a painting, sculpture, musical composition, literary work, etc. An artillery gun. (US, Canada, colloquial) (short for hairpiece); a toupee or wig, usually when worn by a man. A slice or other quantity of bread, eaten on its own; a ...
Harris said, however, that the river would suit him to a "T." I don't know what a "T" is (except a sixpenny one, which includes bread-and- butter and cake ADLIB., and is cheap at the price, if you haven't had any dinner). ...
Print my preface in such form as, in the booksellers' phrase, will make a sixpennytouch. A touchstone; hence, stone of the sort used for touchstone. * Shakespeare Now do I play thetouch. * Fuller a neat new monument oftouchand alabaster ...
The majority of the products we test go through this same process. It is in-depth, rigorous, and we try our best to test products the same way they would be used in a home. To do this, we test them at our home testing lab and within our homes for day-to-day use. ...
In the basic pattern of children's stories, adventures break the boredom of home but ually become erous, and the safety of home is desired once again.
I went in the sixpennystage. (label) A place of rest on a regularly travelled road; a station; a place appointed for a relay of horses. (label) A degree of advancement in a journey; one of several portions into which a road or course is marked off; the distance between two places ...
a sixpennypiece An artistic creation, such as a painting, sculpture, musical composition, literary work, etc. An artillery gun. (US, Canada, colloquial) (short for hairpiece); a toupee or wig, usually when worn by a man. A slice or other quantity of bread, eaten on its own; a sandw...