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Claw :: Claw (n.) A sharp, hooked nail, as of a beast or bird..

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

Burrel Shot :: Burrel shot () A mixture of shot, nails, stones, pieces of old iron, etc., fired from a cannon at short range, in an emergency..

Nail :: Nail (n.) To spike, as a cannon..

Dowel :: Dowel (n.) A piece of wood driven into a wall, so that other pieces may be nailed to it..

Hobnail :: Hobnail (v. t.) To tread down roughly, as with hobnailed shoes..

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

Print :: Print (n.) A mark made by impression; a line, character, figure, or indentation, made by the pressure of one thing on another; as, the print of teeth or nails in flesh; the print of the foot in sand or snow..

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.

Nail :: Nail (a.) A measure of length, being two inches and a quarter, or the sixteenth of a yard..

Suburb :: Subungual (a.) Under the nail or hoof.

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

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..

Hobnailed :: Hobnailed (a.) See with hobnails, as a shoe..

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

Fur :: Fur (v. t.) To nail small strips of board or larger scantling upon, in order to make a level surface for lathing or boarding, or to provide for a space or interval back of the plastered or boarded surface, as inside an outer wall, by way of protection against damp..

Physa :: Physa (n.) A genus of fresh-water Pulmonifera, having reversed spiral shells. See Pond snail, under Pond..

Root :: Root (n.) That which resembles a root in position or function, esp. as a source of nourishment or support; that from which anything proceeds as if by growth or development; as, the root of a tooth, a nail, a cancer, and the like..

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

Helicoid :: Helicoid (a.) Shaped like a snail shell; pertaining to the Helicidae, or Snail family..

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