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Shipbuilding peg
Answer for the clue "Shipbuilding peg ", 7 letters:
trenail
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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: treenail , trunnel ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (alternative spelling of treenail English)
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 trenail.
Besides laying, boring, trenailing, wedging, and grouting thirty two stones, several other operations were proceeded with on the rock at low-water, when some of the artificers were employed at the railways, and at high-water at the beacon-house.
The artificers had completed the laying of the twenty seventh or first course of the staircase this morning, and in the evening they finished the boring, trenailing, wedging, and grouting it with mortar.
Upon inquiry it appeared that three of the stones last laid upon the building had been partially lifted from their beds by the force of the sea, and were now held only by the trenails, and that the cast-iron sheer-crane had again been thrown down and completely broken.
In her day they built with pegs and tenons instead of just trenails holding the strakes to the frames.
Not fancy, but it was all solid work, pinned with trenails rather than iron.