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Flat-headed :: Flat-headed (a.) Having a head with a flattened top; as, a flat-headed nail..

Cradling :: Cradling (n.) The framework in arched or coved ceilings to which the laths are nailed.

Pupa :: Pupa (n.) A genus of air-breathing land snails having an elongated spiral shell.

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

Helix :: Helix (n.) A genus of land snails, including a large number of species..

Manufacture :: Manufacture (v. t.) To make (wares or other products) by hand, by machinery, or by other agency; as, to manufacture cloth, nails, glass, etc..

''snails :: 'Snails (interj.) God's nails, or His nails, that is, the nails with which the Savior was fastened to the cross; -- an ancient form of oath, corresponding to 'Od's bodikins (dim. of body, i.e., God's dear body)..

Tierce :: Tierce (n.) A position in thrusting or parrying in which the wrist and nails are turned downward.

Clinch :: Clinch (v. t.) To bend or turn over the point of (something that has been driven through an object), so that it will hold fast; as, to clinch a nail..

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

Sprig :: Sprig (n.) A brad, or nail without a 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..

Treenail :: Treenail (n.) A long wooden pin used in fastening the planks of a vessel to the timbers or to each other.

Pricking :: Pricking (n.) The driving of a nail into a horse's foot so as to produce lameness.

Hobnail :: Hobnail (n.) A short, sharp-pointed, large-headed nail, -- used in shoeing houses and for studding the soles of heavy shoes..

Spike :: Spike (n.) A sort of very large nail; also, a piece of pointed iron set with points upward or outward..

Cut :: Cut (v. t.) To sever and remove by cutting; to cut off; to dock; as, to cut the hair; to cut the nails..

Horseshoe :: Horseshoe (n.) A shoe for horses, consisting of a narrow plate of iron in form somewhat like the letter U, nailed to a horse's hoof..

Unguicular :: Unguicular (a.) Of or pertaining to a claw or a nail; ungual.

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

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