Crossword clues for doornail
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Doornail \Door"nail`\ (d[=o]r"n[=a]l`), n. The nail or knob on which in ancient doors the knocker struck; -- hence the old saying, ``As dead as a doornail.''
Wiktionary
alt. A nail with a wide head, traditionally used in the construction and ornamentation of wooden doors. n. A nail with a wide head, traditionally used in the construction and ornamentation of wooden doors.
WordNet
n. a nail with a large head; formerly used to decorate doors
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "doornail".
Rusty Charley is what is called a gorill, because he is known to often carry a gun in his pants pocket, and sometimes to shoot people down as dead as doornails with it if he does not like the way they wear their hatsand Rusty Charley is very critical of hats.
Kneeling in beseechment, Avila raised his blood-flecked arms toward the heavens and asked Change to please strike Snapper dead as a fucking doornail for screwing up the roofer scam.
The next time you stand and sing the National Anthem, friends and neighbors, chew on this: America is dead, dead as a doornail, dead as Jacob Marley and Buddy Holly and the Big Bopper and Harry S Truman, but the principles just propounded by Mr.
She was attractive, but her eyes were dead as a doornail from boredom.
There's a guy with a loaded rifle in his hand and four holes in his chest hanging right there in the inner fence, dead as a doornail.
You and your precious Constitution that is as dead as a doornail if we don’.
You and your precious Constitution that is as dead as a doornail if we don't get the elves off our backs?
I explained this to Featherstone, but he looked gloomy and said, ' If you ask me this case is as dead as a doornail.
The telephone operator come running out screaming bloody murder an' the copper come running down from the corner an' we both went upstairs--he paused, caught his breath--an' there was this guy Rigas, half in the bedroom and half out-, an' dead as a doornail.
A handful of the pretty green leaves can kill you deader than a doornail.
Kind of the way a bug looked flipped on its back, legs stiff, deader than a doornail.
He'd actually been deader than a doornail and death had been just as delightful as he'd dreamed it would be.