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Shipbuilder's pin
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treenail
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A treenail , also trenail , trennel , or trunnel , is a wooden peg, pin, or dowel used to fasten pieces of wood together, especially in timber frames , covered bridges , wooden shipbuilding and boat building . Many such buildings and bridges are still in ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a wooden peg that is used to fasten timbers in shipbuilding; water causes the peg to swell and hold the timbers fast [syn: trenail , trunnel ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
alt. A wooden peg or pin used as a fastener. n. A wooden peg or pin used as a fastener.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Treenail \Tree"nail`\, n. [Tree + nail.] (Shipbuilding) A long wooden pin used in fastening the planks of a vessel to the timbers or to each other. [Written also trenail , and trunnel .]
Usage examples of treenail.
He was driving an octagonal oak treenail into the gushing bolt hole with accurate smashing hits, the water cutting off to a trickle, then nothing.
Next to it was a green deck representing forest wealth: trees to be sold as masts to shipbuilders in Waterholm, maples to be tapped for syrup, horn-beams for treenails, cedars for shingles, and more.
Then she tipped agonisingly to starboard with the bowsprit snapping and the hull rupturing as its planks bowed and cracked and their treenails popped free like corks.
Half a ton of mixed nails, nine thousand treenails, three tons of lead .
Next to it was a green deck representing forest wealth: trees to be sold as masts to shipbuilders in Waterholm, maples to be tapped for syrup, horn-beams for treenails, cedars for shingles, and more.
During the first fortnight he had worn himself raw, pulling on ropes, helping to saw wood, beating home treenails and wedges, and he had suffered much from the inherent malignity of things - no rope, pulled over the most innocent surface, that did not succeed in twisting upon itself or catching in some minute anfractuosity or protrusion.
Eighteen thousand treenails locked futtocks and planks, beams and breasthooks, stem and stern-post .
The ribs of the schooner curled up from the keelson like the skeleton of some sleek sea beast cast ashore, embraced by the cradle that held them in place while the frame was spiked and treenailed together.