Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Penny-a-liner

Penny-a-liner , noun

One who furnishes matter to public journals at so much a line; a poor writer for hire; a hack writer. — Thackeray

Text from the public-domain GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English, derived from Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913). Definitions marked with were added by later GCIDE contributors and are not in the original 1913 edition.

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