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Spike :: Spike (v. t.) To fasten with spikes, or long, large nails; as, to spike down planks..

Cochleated :: Cochleated (a.) Having the form of a snail shell; spiral; turbinated.

Nail :: Nail (n.) A slender, pointed piece of metal, usually with a head, used for fastening pieces of wood or other material together, by being driven into or through them..

Shard :: Shard (n.) A piece or fragment of an earthen vessel, or a like brittle substance, as the shell of an egg or snail..

Hammer :: Hammer (n.) An instrument for driving nails, beating metals, and the like, consisting of a head, usually of steel or iron, fixed crosswise to a handle..

Pritchel :: Pritchel (n.) A tool employed by blacksmiths for punching or enlarging the nail holes in a horseshoe.

Nail :: Nail (n.) The basal thickened portion of the anterior wings of certain hemiptera.

Naileries :: Naileries (pl. ) of Nailer.

Snail :: Snail (n.) A tortoise; in ancient warfare, a movable roof or shed to protect besiegers; a testudo..

Glass-snail :: Glass-snail (n.) A small, transparent, land snail, of the genus Vitrina..

Clout :: Clout (n.) The center of the butt at which archers shoot; -- probably once a piece of white cloth or a nail head.

Aye-aye :: Aye-aye (n.) A singular nocturnal quadruped, allied to the lemurs, found in Madagascar (Cheiromys Madagascariensis), remarkable for its long fingers, sharp nails, and rodent-like incisor teeth..

Iron-sick :: Iron-sick (a.) Having the ironwork loose or corroded; -- said of a ship when her bolts and nails are so eaten with rust that she has become leaky.

Ungulate :: Ungulate (a.) Furnished with hoofs. See the Note under Nail, n., 1..

Stud :: Stud (n.) An upright scanting, esp. one of the small uprights in the framing for lath and plaster partitions, and furring, and upon which the laths are nailed..

Oxshoe :: Oxshoe (n.) A shoe for oxen, consisting of a flat piece of iron nailed to the hoof..

Tenaille :: Tenaille (n.) An outwork in the main ditch, in front of the curtain, between two bastions. See Illust. of Ravelin..

Supernaculum :: Supernaculum (adv. & n.) A kind of mock Latin term intended to mean, upon the nail; -- used formerly by topers..

Button :: Button (n.) A piece of wood or metal, usually flat and elongated, turning on a nail or screw, to fasten something, as a door..

Tack :: Tack (n.) A small, short, sharp-pointed nail, usually having a broad, flat head..

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