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Nails

A slim, pointed piece of metal hammered into material as a fastener.

Nail

A slim, pointed piece of metal hammered into material as a fastener.

Nails

A fingernail or toenail.

Nail

A fingernail or toenail.

Nails

A claw or talon.
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Nail

A claw or talon.

Nails

Something resembling a nail in shape, sharpness, or use.

Nail

Something resembling a nail in shape, sharpness, or use.

Nails

A measure of length formerly used for cloth, equal to 1/16 yard (5.7 centimeters).

Nail

A measure of length formerly used for cloth, equal to 1/16 yard (5.7 centimeters).
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Nails

To fasten, join, or attach with or as if with a nail.

Nail

To fasten, join, or attach with or as if with a nail.

Nails

To cover, enclose, or shut by fastening with nails
Nail up a window.

Nail

To cover, enclose, or shut by fastening with nails
Nail up a window.

Nails

To keep fixed, motionless, or intent
Fear nailed me to my seat.

Nail

To keep fixed, motionless, or intent
Fear nailed me to my seat.

Nails

To stop and seize; catch
Police nailed the suspect.

Nail

To stop and seize; catch
Police nailed the suspect.

Nails

To detect and expose
Nailed the senator in a lie.
Nail corruption before it gets out of control.

Nail

To detect and expose
Nailed the senator in a lie.
Nail corruption before it gets out of control.

Nails

To strike or bring down
Nail a bird in flight.
Nail a running back.

Nail

To strike or bring down
Nail a bird in flight.
Nail a running back.

Nails

To perform successfully or have noteworthy success in
Nailed the dive.
Nailed the exam.

Nail

To perform successfully or have noteworthy success in
Nailed the dive.
Nailed the exam.

Nails

(Baseball) To put out (a base runner).

Nail

(Baseball) To put out (a base runner).

Nails

Vulgar Slang To have sexual intercourse with.

Nail

Vulgar Slang To have sexual intercourse with.

Nails

Plural of nail

Nail

The thin, horny plate at the ends of fingers and toes on humans and some other animals.
When I'm nervous I bite my nails.

Nails

The four round-topped pedestals outside the Corn Exchange in Bristol on which bargains used to be struck.

Nail

The basal thickened portion of the anterior wings of certain hemiptera.

Nail

The terminal horny plate on the beak of ducks, and other allied birds.

Nail

The claw of a bird or other animal.

Nail

A spike-shaped metal fastener used for joining wood or similar materials. The nail is generally driven through two or more layers of material by means of impacts from a hammer or other device. It is then held in place by friction.

Nail

A round pedestal on which merchants once carried out their business, such as the four nails outside The Exchange, Bristol.

Nail

An archaic English unit of length equivalent to 20 of an ell or 16 of a yard (4 inches or 5.715 cm).

Nail

(transitive) To fix (an object) to another object using a nail.
He nailed the placard to the post.

Nail

(intransitive) To drive a nail.
He used the ax head for nailing.

Nail

(transitive) To stud or boss with nails, or as if with nails.

Nail

(slang) To catch.

Nail

To expose as a sham.

Nail

To accomplish (a task) completely and successfully.
I really nailed that test.

Nail

To hit (a target) effectively with some weapon.

Nail

Of a male, to engage in sexual intercourse with.

Nail

(military) To spike, as a cannon.

Nail

(transitive) To nail down: to make certain, or confirm.

Nail

The horny scale of plate of epidermis at the end of the fingers and toes of man and many apes.
His nayles like a briddes claws were.

Nail

The basal thickened portion of the anterior wings of certain hemiptera.

Nail

A slender, pointed piece of metal, usually with a head{2}, used for fastening pieces of wood or other material together, by being driven into or through them.

Nail

A measure of length, being two inches and a quarter, or the sixteenth of a yard.

Nail

To fasten with a nail or nails; to close up or secure by means of nails; as, to nail boards to the beams.
He is now dead, and nailed in his chest.

Nail

To stud or boss with nails, or as with nails.
The rivets of your arms were nailed with gold.

Nail

To fasten, as with a nail; to bind or hold, as to a bargain or to acquiescence in an argument or assertion; hence, to catch; to trap.
When they came to talk of places in town, you saw at once how I nailed them.

Nail

To spike, as a cannon.

Nail

Horny plate covering and protecting part of the dorsal surface of the digits

Nail

A thin pointed piece of metal that is hammered into materials as a fastener

Nail

A former unit of length for cloth equal to 1/16 of a yard

Nail

Attach something somewhere by means of nails;
Nail the board onto the wall

Nail

Take into custody;
The police nabbed the suspected criminals

Nail

Hit hard;
He smashed a 3-run homer

Nail

Succeed in obtaining a position;
He nailed down a spot at Harvard

Nail

Succeed at easily;
She sailed through her exams
You will pass with flying colors
She nailed her astrophysics course

Nail

Locate exactly;
Can you pinpoint the position of the enemy?
The chemists could not nail the identity of the chromosome

Nail

Complete a pass

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