fiveteen

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A form of fifteen — The cardinal number occurring after fourteen (14) and before sixteen (16).

First used 17th–18th c.Scrabble 14
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Meanings

numeral
  1. obsoleteObsolete form of fifteen.First known use 17th–18th c.

    Taken in clap-nets of fiveteen yards length.

    1768, Thomas Pennant, British Zoology
    1 more example

    ‘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! – ’

    1783, Frances Burney, Journals & Letters, Penguin, published 2001, page 200
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