Definition of nail

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Nail (n.) To fasten with a nail or nails; to close up or secure by means of nails; as, to nail boards to the beams..

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Trannel :: Trannel (n.) A treenail.
Tenaillon :: Tenaillon (n.) A work constructed on each side of the ravelins, to increase their strength, procure additional ground beyond the ditch, or cover the shoulders of the bastions..
Wringbolt :: Wringbolt (n.) A bolt used by shipwrights, to bend and secure the planks against the timbers till they are fastened by bolts, spikes, or treenails; -- not to be confounded with ringbolt..
Shoe :: Shoe (n.) A plate or rim of iron nailed to the hoof of an animal to defend it from injury.
Suburb :: Subungual (a.) Under the nail or hoof.
Supernaculum :: Supernaculum (adv. & n.) A kind of mock Latin term intended to mean, upon the nail; -- used formerly by topers..
Clout :: Clout (n.) To stud with nails, as a timber, or a boot sole..
Carpet :: Carpet (n.) A heavy woven or felted fabric, usually of wool, but also of cotton, hemp, straw, etc.; esp. a floor covering made in breadths to be sewed together and nailed to the floor, as distinguished from a rug or mat; originally, also, a wrought cover for tables..
Sparable :: Sparable (n.) A kind of small nail used by shoemakers.
Unnail :: Unnail (v. t.) To remove the nails from; to unfasten by removing nails.
Chameck :: Chameck (n.) A kind of spider monkey (Ateles chameck), having the thumbs rudimentary and without a nail..
Bouge :: Bouge (v. t.) To scoop out, as an eye, with the thumb nail; to force out the eye of (a person) with the thumb..
Shard :: Shard (n.) A piece or fragment of an earthen vessel, or a like brittle substance, as the shell of an egg or snail..
Supernal :: Supernaculum (adv. & n.) Good liquor, of which not enough is left to wet one's nail..
Spike :: Spike (n.) Anything resembling such a nail in shape.
Quick :: Quick (n.) The life; the mortal point; a vital part; a part susceptible of serious injury or keen feeling; the sensitive living flesh; the part of a finger or toe to which the nail is attached; the tender emotions; as, to cut a finger nail to the quick; to thrust a sword to the quick, to taunt one to the quick; -- used figuratively..
Run :: Run (v. i.) To cause to enter; to thrust; as, to run a sword into or through the body; to run a nail into the foot..
Set :: Set (n.) A short steel spike used for driving the head of a nail below the surface.
Agnail :: Agnail (n.) A corn on the toe or foot.
Hobnailed :: Hobnailed (a.) See with hobnails, as a shoe..
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