Wooden fastener, pin or small dowel.
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Examples for "trunnel"
Examples for "trunnel"
1I slept in a little trunnel bed under my mother's mistress' bed.
2Into each of these we graved a piece of plank, and in one of them we drove a trunnel where none had been before.
1When we found that no one was inside we told Captain Treenail of the man we had seen climbing up the cliff.
1Cross pieces, 12 feet long, were pegged to this by trenails-nailsformed of tough and hard wood.
2Each stone was fastened to its neighbour above, below, and around by means of dovetails, joggles, oaken trenails, and mortar.
3It is of a pale lemon colour; and is considered more durable for trenails than any other-thatof the locust excepted.
4These we cut to the proper size, and bound them together by slats, and trenails made out of the hard locust-wood.
5The remainder of this tide, from the threatening appearance of the weather, was occupied in trenailing and making all things as secure as possible.
1The stones are dovetailed one into the other, and are secured by oak trennels strongly cemented.