Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The head of a nail.
- noun In architecture, a medieval ornament. See
nail-headed .
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Examples
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May 4, 2008 at 2:53 pm as to “never quite so dumb”……nail-head, firmly impacted by hammer, a large one.
Lestat? - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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I would make Cyprianus pull the damn tooth out with a set of nail-head pliers.
A Body In The Bath House Davis, Lindsey 2001
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Sunlight burst into the office, washing away the shadows that covered her high-back, blood-red, nail-head leather chair, the bookcases and standing lamp.
Twilight’s Child V.C. ANDREWS 1992
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Sunlight burst into the office, washing away the shadows that covered her high-back, blood-red, nail-head leather chair, the bookcases and standing lamp.
Twilight’s Child V.C. ANDREWS 1992
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Habit and experience, tested in atmospheric light, will control the muscles, and direct the blow at the very point where the nail-head is not.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873 Various
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It is essential that the face of the hammer be kept free from glue in order to avoid its sticking on the nail-head and so bending the nail.
Handwork in Wood William Noyes
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Let the architect's attention be directed to the western doorway, and also to the interior of the church; and here, in good preservation, he will see excellent specimens of their mode of ornamenting the moldings by the cable, the lozenge, the cheveron, the nail-head, the billet, &c. &c., ornaments peculiar to the
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 274, September 22, 1827 Various
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To keep the nailset in its place on the nail-head it may be held closely against the third finger of the left hand, which rests on the wood close to the nail.
Handwork in Wood William Noyes
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To the right of this and along the east wall of the cloister, are arched recesses of a late style, and in the south wall is an arcade of trefoil form, with nail-head enrichments.
Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys Herbert Story
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The old hinges had given, allowing it to sag and catch against a raised nail-head in the sill.
The Young Railroaders Tales of Adventure and Ingenuity Francis Lovell Coombs
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