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