Definition of nail

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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..

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Geophila :: Geophila (n. pl.) The division of Mollusca which includes the land snails and slugs.
Clout :: Clout (n.) To stud with nails, as a timber, or a boot sole..
Rove :: Rove (n.) A copper washer upon which the end of a nail is clinched in boat building.
Nail :: Nail (n.) the horny scale of plate of epidermis at the end of the fingers and toes of man and many apes.
Trenail :: Trenail (n.) Same as Treenail.
Snail-like :: Snail-like (adv.) In the manner of a snail; slowly.
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..
Home-driven :: Home-driven (a.) Driven to the end, as a nail; driven close..
Brad :: Brad (n.) A thin nail, usually small, with a slight projection at the top on one side instead of a head; also, a small wire nail, with a flat circular head; sometimes, a small, tapering, square-bodied finishing nail, with a countersunk head..
Snail :: Snail (n.) Hence, a drone; a slow-moving person or thing..
Unguicular :: Unguicular (a.) Of or pertaining to a claw or a nail; ungual.
Bulimus :: Bulimus (n.) A genus of land snails having an elongated spiral shell, often of large size. The species are numerous and abundant in tropical America..
Nail :: 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..
Snail-paced :: Snail-paced (a.) Slow-moving, like a snail..
Foot :: Foot (n.) The muscular locomotive organ of a mollusk. It is a median organ arising from the ventral region of body, often in the form of a flat disk, as in snails. See Illust. of Buccinum..
Rosehead :: Rosehead (n.) A many-sided pyramidal head upon a nail; also a nail with such a head.
Onychia :: Onychia (n.) An affection of a finger or toe, attended with ulceration at the base of the nail, and terminating in the destruction of the nail..
Claw :: Claw (n.) A sharp, hooked nail, as of a beast or bird..
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..
Toed :: Toed (a.) Having the end secured by nails driven obliquely, said of a board, plank, or joist serving as a brace, and in general of any part of a frame secured to other parts by diagonal nailing..
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