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Definition of Nailhead
1. Noun. Something resembling the head of a nail that is used as an ornamental device.
2. Noun. Flattened boss on the end of nail opposite to the point.
Definition of Nailhead
1. Noun. The head of a nail. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Nailhead
1. the top of a nail [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nailhead
Literary usage of Nailhead
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of the Architecture and Archaeology of the Middle Ages by John BRITTON (1838)
"The nailhead MOULDING, common in buildings of Norman architecture, is so called
from being formed by a series of projections resembling the heads of nails, ..."
2. Spanish Ironwork by Arthur Byne, Mildred Stapley Byne (1915)
"Next to the nailhead, whose making has already - been described, the most
characteristic bit of Spanish ( door hardware is the knocker (called llamador by ..."
3. A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Biographical, Historical, and by Russell Sturgis (1901)
"There is then an infinite variety of simple and effective patterns into which
the heads can be worked. nailhead A small projecting feature, ..."
4. Journal of the British Archaeological Association by British Archaeological Association (1906)
"At Cuckney, on the north side of the chancel, is an early piscina, with an almost
triangular arched recess, ornamented with the nailhead and dogtooth. ..."
5. A History of Architecture on the Comparative Method for the Student by Banister Fletcher (1901)
"Later work is very richly ornamented with nailhead, corbel, billet, and other
ornamented mouldings (No. 108). Wall arcades of intersecting arches (No. ..."
6. Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archeological Society by James Simpson, Richard Saul Ferguson, William Gershom Collingwood (1902)
"The whole is surrounded by an incised line, a row of nailhead, ... The sunk
saltire appears on a slab at Gosforth,t and the nailhead occurs profusely on ..."
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