any of a number of nails used to secure roofing material (in early use also as mass noun).

a nail used in fixing shingles in building.

†(a) shingle-nails; (b) an irregular form of the human nail.

A ‘pin’ (pin, n.1 1) or peg of hard wood used to fasten the tiles to the laths of a roof.

(mostlyplural) a nail used to fasten a sheet of lead on a roof.

brads for nailing roof-shingles.

A nail or peg for fixing stone slates; a slate-pin.

? a nail for fixing stone slates (cf. stone-brod, n.).

a pin used to fix a slate on a roof.

In names of various tools and implements. A bone pin for slating. Obsolete.

a peg used to fix a slate on a roof.

a nail used to fix a slate on a roof.