Associations to the word «Trenail»

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Wiktionary

TRENAIL, noun. Alternative spelling of treenail

Dictionary definition

TRENAIL, noun. A wooden peg that is used to fasten timbers in shipbuilding; water causes the peg to swell and hold the timbers fast.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope