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Trenail

noun
1.
A wooden peg that is used to fasten timbers in shipbuilding; water causes the peg to swell and hold the timbers fast.  Synonyms: treenail, trunnel.






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"Trenail" Quotes from Famous Books



... left to get out of its way; but one of them, Michael Wishart, a mason, stumbled over an uncut trenail and rolled on his back, and the ponderous crane fell upon him. Fortunately it fell so that his body lay between the great shaft and the movable beam, and thus he escaped with his life, but his feet were entangled with ...
— The Lighthouse • Robert Ballantyne



Words linked to "Trenail" :   trunnel, nog, treenail, peg



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