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Nail

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A small driven metal fastener for wood. Not nail-clipper as the grooming tool, and not screw as the threaded fastener.

  • Nail is historically related to Iron.

    Ure’s Dictionary of Arts seats nails among iron fasteners driven into wood. A named nail beside iron, not nail-clipper as the grooming tool.

    from Andrew Ure · Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines, 1839 (and later PD editions)

    historically related to · sourced · documented

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