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单词 treenail
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treenailtrenailn.

Brit. /ˈtriːneɪl/, /ˈtrɛnl/, U.S. /ˈtriˌneɪl/, /ˈtrɛn(ə)l/
Forms: Middle English trenayl(e, 1500s treenale, 1600s trey naile, treenaile, tre-naile, tree-nell, 1700s treenel, trenel, 1600s– treenail, trenail; β. 1600s–1800s trennel, trunnel, (1600s–1700s trunel, 1700s trundle), 1800s trennail.
Etymology: < tree n. + nail n.Some confusion seems to have existed between this word and trundle n. (small wheel or roller); compare the trun- forms, and trundles in sense ‘cylindrical pins or staves forming teeth of lantern-wheel’.
a. A cylindrical pin of hard wood used in fastening timbers together, esp. in shipbuilding and other work where the materials are exposed to the action of water.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > fastenings > [noun] > pin or peg > wooden
treenail1295
trunnion1627
mooter1867
1295 Exch. Accts. (P.R.O. 5/21) [Accts. of building a galley at Lyme] In loco ij. operariorum per ij. septimanas qui perforaverunt Galeam et imposuerunt trenayl..iiij. sol. In iij. miliariis de trenayl emptis vj. sol. et. ix. den.
1495 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 164 C di Tre nayles xijd.
1561–3 in J. E. T. Rogers Hist. Agric. & Prices (1882) (modernized text) III. 414/2–4 Tree nails, 6 m. 30 inch @ c 2/6... 15 m 16 inch @ c 1/4... 6 c 24 inch @ 2/-.]
1571 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories N. Counties Eng. (1835) I. 361 iij houndrethe treenales viijd.
1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. ii. 4 The other parts of those plankes are made fast with good Treenailes and Trunnions of well seasoned timber.
1691 W. Petty Treat. Naval Philos. in T. Hale Acct. New Inventions 118 Trenails.
1861 S. Smiles Lives Engineers II. 39 (note) Holes being bored through every piece of stone, one course was further bound to another by oak trenails.
1862 M. Hopkins Hawaii 98 The English seamen seizing some wooden treenails, struck the natives with them.
1864 Daily Tel. 30 July The line was opened in 1854, and the chairs were then secured to the sleepers by Ransome's trenails.
β. 1685 N. Boteler Six Dialogues Sea-services Trennels.1691 T. Hale Acct. New Inventions 22 The fastening of our Plank we perform with wooden Trunnels.1711 W. Sutherland Ship-builders Assistant 39 The Plank..fasten'd to the Timbers..with Trennels or Pins of Wood.1770 Ann. Reg. 1769 100 Great square logs of pine, laid one upon another, and pinned together with oak trunels.1776 G. Semple Treat. Building in Water 95 These Belts are to be..pinned with Oak Trundles of about ¾ Inch Diameter.1827 P. Cunningham Two Years New S. Wales II. xxii. 76 Cargoes consisting of wool, skins,..trennails, and hides.
b. attributive.
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1497 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 313 ij lode of Trenayle wode.
1863 P. Barry Dockyard Econ. 110 Seventeenth in order stand the trenail-houses. For the year the expenditure in these houses was £4,411 11s. 10¾d.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Tree-nail wedge, a cross is cut in the tree-nail end, and wedges driven in, caulked.

Derivatives

ˈtreenail v. (transitive) to fasten or secure (timbers) with treenails.
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society > occupation and work > industry > working with tools or equipment > fastening > fasten [verb (transitive)] > with nails > with specific type
spike1624
treenail1626
spike1700
sprig1712
brad1794
clinker1824
thumbtack1884
toe-nail1900
1626 J. Smith Accidence Young Sea-men 9 All the planckes to be treenailed to the beames.
1633 T. James Strange Voy. 76 She was ready to be boulted and trenneld.
1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) §38 The balks, in all their intersections with each other, trenailed together.
1834 Gentleman's Mag. 104 i. 94/2 The timber head of a vessel,..built chiefly of oak timber, with some elm and fir, clinker built, and trunnelled.
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