fiveteen

English

Numeral

fiveteen

1. 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, published 2001, page 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! – ’