Definition of Trenail

1. Noun. A wooden peg that is used to fasten timbers in shipbuilding; water causes the peg to swell and hold the timbers fast.

Exact synonyms: Treenail, Trunnel
Generic synonyms: Nog, Peg

Definition of Trenail

1. n. Same as Treenail.

Definition of Trenail

1. Noun. (alternative spelling of treenail) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Trenail

1. treenail [n -S] - See also: treenail

Lexicographical Neighbors of Trenail

tremostable
tremour
tremours
tremp
tremped
tremping
tremps
tremulant
tremulor
tremulous
tremulous iris
tremulously
tremulousness
tremulousnesses
tren
trenail (current term)
trenails
trenbolone
trench
trench coat
trench coats
trench cut
trench cuts
trench foot
trench hand
trench knife
trench lung
trench mentalities
trench mentality

Literary usage of Trenail

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Steel Rails: Their History, Properties, Strength and Manufacture, with Notes by William Hamilton Sellew (1913)
"119 and 120 illustrate pine ties with Collet trenail - sometimes used as substitute for square plug l-iu. 118. — Collet trenail. (Am. Ry. ..."

2. The Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia: Commercial by Edward Balfour (1885)
"These are the persons who are employed in the pearl fishery. ground ; whilst boats with framed timbers and planks, nail or trenail fastened, would be broken ..."

3. Construction and Maintenance of Railway Roadbed and Track by Frederick John Prior (1907)
"Pile Tenon and trenail. There are several ways of fastening the caps to the piles—by mo/tise and tenon, by drift-bolts, or by dowels. ..."

4. Reports of the Late John Smeaton, F.R.S., Made on Various Occasions, in the by John Smeaton (1837)
"... and truly planed to an octagon formed from a square gaged to full 1| inch), and the leading end of the trenail being a little snapped off, ..."

5. Patents for Inventions: Abridgments of Specifications Relating to Railways by Great Britain Patent Office, Patent Office, Great Britain (1868)
"It is preferred that the hole thus "• drilled into a wood trenail should be cylindrical hi order to its " receiving a cylindrical metal spike, which should, ..."

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