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Carpenter's activity
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nailing
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A mechanical fastening by means of nails. vb. (present participle of nail English)
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Nail \Nail\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Nailed (n[=a]ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Nailing .] [AS. n[ae]glian. See 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. He is now dead, and nailed in his chest. ...
Usage examples of nailing.
It was aplace of beauty and we had polluted it with our presence, nailing up the doors, planking over thewindows.
We certainly find it preferable to nailing everyone into place with clientship and patronage for the benefit of those lucky enough to born to the right parents.
Buddy and cousin Davy drive out in the creamery van with a load of plywood and we work the night away nailing it down.
Him for the inestimable gift He offered them, and for a life passed in toiling for their good, by nailing Him upon the cross, as though He had been a slave or malefactor.
We indict Dugan, we blow our shot at nailing Vecchio and his protection racket buddies in Richleigh.
I was embarrassed at the obvious depraved pleasure with which this miniaturist had drawn pictures of bastinados, beatings, crucifixions, hangings by the neck or the feet, hookings, impalings, firings from cannon, nailings, stranglings, the cutting of throats, feedings to hungry dogs, whippings, baggings, pressings, soakings in cold water, the plucking of hair, the breaking of fingers, the delicate flayings, the cutting off of noses and the removal of eyes.
Nailing him as a distributor of Brimstone would be enough to pay off my contract.
One day I was with him, and we saw a tinner nailing a new leader or tin water-spout to the side of a house.
So one day, as Roger was nailing down sheets of aluminum on the roof, Nate came to him, told him of Operation Auca, and asked him to go along as the badly-needed fourth man.
Rasche and Schaefer, taken on the occasion of nailing a particularly vicious drug kingpin from uptown, a punk called Errol G.
But Lieutenant Rossi was not too proud to do some scrounging and nailing, if it would give him a ceiling.
But there was no point in killing them until they started crowing and nailing the pullets and fighting each other.
Slowly he slammed the hammer down hard, methodically nailing the lids over the statues, one by one.
We certainly find it preferable to nailing everyone into place with clientship and patronage for the benefit of those lucky enough to born to the right parents.
It's a shot at getting Josh back alive and nailing his abductors red-handed.