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alt. An electrically or pneumatically powered gun used to drive nails into a surface. n. An electrically or pneumatically powered gun used to drive nails into a surface.
Wikipedia
A nail gun, nailgun or nailer is a type of tool used to drive nails into wood or some other kind of material. It is usually driven by electromagnetism, compressed air ( pneumatic), highly flammable gases such as butane or propane, or, for powder-actuated tools, a small explosive charge. Nail guns have in many ways replaced hammers as tools of choice among builders.
The nail gun was designed by Morris Pynoos, a civil engineer by training, for his work on Howard Hughes' H-4 Hercules (known as the Spruce Goose). The wooden fuselage was nailed together and glued, and then the nails were removed.
The first nail gun used air pressure and was introduced to the market in 1950 to speed the construction of housing floor sheathing and sub-floors. With the original nail gun, the operator used it while standing and could nail 40-60 nails a minute. It had a capacity of 400-600 nails.
Usage examples of "nail gun".
It looked like someone had taken a nail gun, one of those industrial size nail guns, and nailed the man to the wall.
Carrying the nail gun, the killer walked away along the hall, toward the kitchen.
I use Mace to blind both of them momentarily and then I knock them unconscious with the butt of the nail gun.
I would have figured it for a nail gun, until they told me it was shotgun debris from manufactured furniture.
On the leather seat beside him were an automatic pistol, a black leather briefcase, and a nail gun with a portable compressor next to it.
He stood there talking to Vielle and the intern with no sign of injury Joanna could see, at least from the back, and whatever his problem was, even if somebody'd shot him with a nail gun, it could wait a minute because she had to find out where Richard was.