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Nail
NAIL, n. If the word was originally applied to a claw or talon, the primary sense may be to catch, or it may be a shoot.
1. The claw or talon of a fowl or other animal.
2. The horny substance growing at the end of the human fingers and toes.
3. A small pointed piece of metal, usually with a head, to be driven into a board or other piece of timber, and serving to fasten it to other timber. The larger kinds of instruments of this sort are called spikes; and a long thin kind with a flattish head, is called a brad.
4. A stud or boss; a short nail with a large broad head.
5. A measure of length, being two inches and a quarter, or the 16th of a yard.
6. On the nail, in hand; immediately; without delay or time of credit; as, to pay money on the nail.
7. To hit the nail on the head, to hit or touch the exact point.
NAIL, v.t.
1. To fasten with nails; to unite, close or make compact with nails.
2. To stud with nails.
3. To stop the vent of a cannon; to spike.
nail appears in definitions for these words:
Agnail Alcanna Alkenna Amyztli Ape Articulation Band Bean-goose Bescratch Bitumen Bole Brad Brogue Budge-barrel Burr Burrel-shot Button Card Carp Clamp Claw Clawing Clinch Clout Crucifixion Crucify Cycloid Discomfit Door-nail Drive Fasten Fillip Fixture Frostnail Hammer Hammercloth Head Header Hersillon Hobnail Home Increase Ironsick It Langrage Lath Log Mantlet Manufacture Megalonyx Nail Nailed Nailer Nailery Nailing Nip Onyx Pare Paronychia Partner Peg Pinchers Powder-chest Print Puncture Rail Retract Ribin Rother-nails Run Saddle Sardonyx Scratch Scupper-nail Shoe Slit Slitting-mill Sparable Spike Spiking Sprig Stub-nail Stud Tack Tacket Thong Tooth Tree-nail Unguicular Weather-boarding Whitlow
Agnail Alcanna Alkenna Amyztli Ape Articulation Band Bean-goose Bescratch Bitumen Bole Brad Brogue Budge-barrel Burr Burrel-shot Button Card Carp Clamp Claw Clawing Clinch Clout Crucifixion Crucify Cycloid Discomfit Door-nail Drive Fasten Fillip Fixture Frostnail Hammer Hammercloth Head Header Hersillon Hobnail Home Increase Ironsick It Langrage Lath Log Mantlet Manufacture Megalonyx Nail Nailed Nailer Nailery Nailing Nip Onyx Pare Paronychia Partner Peg Pinchers Powder-chest Print Puncture Rail Retract Ribin Rother-nails Run Saddle Sardonyx Scratch Scupper-nail Shoe Slit Slitting-mill Sparable Spike Spiking Sprig Stub-nail Stud Tack Tacket Thong Tooth Tree-nail Unguicular Weather-boarding Whitlow
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