单词 | treenail |
释义 | treenailtrenailn. 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. ΘΚΠ 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. b. attributive. ΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1295 |
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