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2. Noun. The four round-topped pedestals outside the Corn Exchange in Bristol on which bargains used to be struck. ¹

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Definition of Nails

1. nail [v] - See also: nail

Lexicographical Neighbors of Nails

Literary usage of Nails

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

1. Journal by Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain) (1873)
"He thought there was something very remarkable about the ductility as well as the usefulness of the nails. There was one question which must have presented ..."

2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"In any case it cannot be denied that the psalm is a most fitting preface to the prophecy. tion of four nails, and the language of certain hist ri- cal ..."

3. Harper's Dictionary of Classical Literature and Antiquities by Harry Thurston Peck (1897)
"Two of these nails are represented in the annexed illustration, of two thirds the real ... Bronze nails were used in ship-building, and to ornament doors, ..."

4. The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion by James George Frazer (1900)
"In the Upper Vosges they say that you should never leave the clippings of your hair and nails lying about, but burn them to hinder the sorcerers from using ..."

5. The Architects' and Builders' Handbook: Data for Architects, Structural by Frank Eugene Kidder (1921)
"Based upon the process of manufacture there are three kinds of nails л common ... (i) Cut nails. Cut nails are made from a strip of rolled iron or steel of ..."

6. Biennial Report by California Dept. of Agriculture, California State Commission of Horticulture (1894)
"Put the tray-frame into this incomplete tray-holding frame and nail it together with eight 29-i-mch wire nails. The inner portion of this tray-holding frame ..."

7. Anomalies and curiosities of medicine by George Milbry Gould, Walter Lytle Pyle (1901)
"The principal anomalies of the nails observed are absence, hypertrophy, ... Some persons are born with finger-nails and toe-nails either very rudimentary or ..."

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