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Definition of Trenails
1. trenail [n] - See also: trenail
Lexicographical Neighbors of Trenails
Literary usage of Trenails
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Manual of Forestry by William Schlich (1896)
"trenails are wooden pegs of different sizes, the largest being used in shipbuilding
... Thirty-five stacked cubic feet yield on the average 200 trenails. ..."
2. Lockwood's Dictionary of Terms Used in the Practice of Mechanical by Joseph Gregory Horner (1892)
"... moisture excluded, so that the trenails swell in their holes and prevent the
chairs from becoming slack. They are used in combination with ..."
3. Supplement to the Theory, Practice, and Architecture of Bridges by William Tierney Clark, György Andrássy, István Széchenyi (1853)
"These trenails were made to pass through two courses of planks into the third,
at distances of about 3 feet 4 inches from centre to centre, ..."
4. The Useful Metals and Their Alloys, Including Mining Ventilation, Mining by John Scoffern (1869)
"... fastened down by pins or trenails to a transverse sleeper embedded in the
ballast of the roadway. As a substitute for this rail, other Fig. 67. ..."
5. Arboretum Et Fruticetum Britannicum: Or, The Trees and Shrubs of Britain by John Claudius Loudon (1854)
"This captain afterwards died in the West Indies ; and the use of the locust for
trenails was neglected for some years, till it was revived at the instance ..."
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