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Nailer :: Nailer (n.) One who fastens with, or drives, nails..

Battening :: Battening (n.) Furring done with small pieces nailed directly upon the wall.

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..

Holdfast :: Holdfast (n.) Something used to secure and hold in place something else, as a long fiat-headed nail, a catch a hook, a clinch, a clamp, etc.; hence, a support..

Doornail :: Doornail (n.) The nail or knob on which in ancient doors the knocker struck; -- hence the old saying, As dead as a doornail..

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

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

Stubbed :: Stub (n.) A stub nail; an old horseshoe nail; also, stub iron..

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

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.

Nailed :: Nailed (imp. & p. p.) of Nai.

Ungual :: Ungual (a.) Of or pertaining to a nail, claw, talon, or hoof, or resembling one..

Fillip :: Fillip (v. t.) To strike with the nail of the finger, first placed against the ball of the thumb, and forced from that position with a sudden spring; to snap with the finger..

Drive :: Drive (v. t.) To impel or urge onward by force in a direction away from one, or along before one; to push forward; to compel to move on; to communicate motion to; as, to drive cattle; to drive a nail; smoke drives persons from a room..

Snail :: Snail (n.) A spiral cam, or a flat piece of metal of spirally curved outline, used for giving motion to, or changing the position of, another part, as the hammer tail of a striking clock..

Hobnail :: Hobnail (n.) A clownish person; a rustic.

Geophila :: Geophila (n. pl.) The division of Mollusca which includes the land snails and slugs.

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..

Countersunk :: Countersunk (p. p. & a.) Beveled on the lower side, so as to fit a chamfered countersink; as, a countersunk nailhead..

Pinchers :: Pinchers (n. pl.) An instrument having two handles and two grasping jaws working on a pivot; -- used for griping things to be held fast, drawing nails, etc..

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