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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.
Definition of Trenail
1. n. Same as Treenail.
Definition of Trenail
1. Noun. (alternative spelling of treenail) ¹
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Definition of Trenail
1. treenail [n -S] - See also: treenail
Lexicographical Neighbors of Trenail
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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