two-and-a-half-inch

Updated: May 3, 2025

Only planks after that, two-and-a-half-inch nails, as gentle as building dolls' houses." Small wonder if Isak hammered and thumped. There stood a barrel of herrings, and the flour, and all kinds of food-stuffs in the stable; better than lying out in the open, maybe, but the pork tasted of it already; a shed they must have, and that was clear.

Knut Hamsun - Growth of the Soil

This first car had something of the appearance of a buggy. There were two cylinders with a two-and-a-half-inch bore and a six-inch stroke set side by side and over the rear axle. I made them out of the exhaust pipe of a steam engine that I had bought. They developed about four horsepower.

Henry Ford - My Life and Work