fiveteen
English
Numeral
fiveteen
- Obsolete form of fifteen. [17th–18th c.]
- 1768, Thomas Pennant, British Zoology:
- Taken in clap-nets of fiveteen yards length.
- 1783, Frances Burney, Journals & Letters, Penguin 2001, p. 200:
- ‘I declared that 5 volumes could never be attacked! – but since I begun, I have read it 3 Times.’ ‘O terrible!’ cried I, – ‘to make them fiveteen! – ’
- 1768, Thomas Pennant, British Zoology:
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