The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cut nail
Cut \Cut\ (k[u^]t), a.
Gashed or divided, as by a cutting instrument.
Formed or shaped as by cutting; carved.
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Overcome by liquor; tipsy. [Slang]
Cut and dried, prepered beforehand; not spontaneous.
Cut glass, glass having a surface ground and polished in facets or figures.
Cut nail, a nail cut by machinery from a rolled plate of iron, in distinction from a wrought nail.
Cut stone, stone hewn or chiseled to shape after having been split from the quarry.
Usage examples of "cut nail".
He began scraping with one square-cut nail at the soot that coated the interior of the open cylindrical firebox.