Crossword-Solution: TREENAIL
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Treenail | n. | A long wooden pin used in fastening the planks of a vessel to the timbers or to each other. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| TREENAIL | anagram | ELATERIN, ENTAILER, LINERATE |
We have 11 clues for the answer “TREENAIL”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Ship timber peg | 1 answer |
| Ship's timber fastener | 1 answer |
| Ship's wooden pin | 1 answer |
| Shipbuilder's pin | 1 answer |
| Shipbuilding dowel | 1 answer |
| Timber fastener that swells as it gets wet | 1 answer |
| Wooden peg that swells when wet. | 1 answer |
| Wooden peg, used in shipbuilding. | 1 answer |
| Wooden pin on a wooden ship. | 1 answer |
| a wooden peg that is used to fasten timbers in shipbuilding | 1 answer |
| water causes the peg to swell and hold the timbers fast | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with TREENAIL (5)
Nevertheless, such a society in my juvenile estimation, during my short escapade from the middy’s berth, had its charms, and I was rolling in with a tolerable swagger, when Mr Treenail pinched my arm.
Before I entered, Mr Treenail took me to one side--“Tom, Tom Cringle, you must go into this crimp shop; pass yourself off for an apprentice of the Guava, bound for Trinidad, the ship that arrived just as we started, and pick up all the knowledge you can regarding the whereabouts of the men, for we are, as you know, cruelly ill manned, and must replenish as we best may.” I entered the house, after having agreed to rejoin my superior officer, so soon as I considered I had obtained my object.
The ship at length came to the wind--we rounded to, under her lee--and an armed boat, with Mr Treenail, and myself, and sixteen men, with cutlasses, were sent on board.
Most of them rose as we entered, and after they had taken a glass of wine, and had their laugh at our mishap, our landlord retired to one side with Mr Treenail, while I, poor little middy as I was, remained standing at the end of the room, close to the head of the stairs.
About midnight, Mr Treenail returned, we shook hands with Mr----, and once more shoved off; and, guided by the lights shown on board the Torch, we were safe home again by three in the morning, when we immediately made sail, and nothing particular happened until we arrived within a day’s sail of New Providence.
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Appears in: LAT, NYT.
Used 9 times in crossword archives (1954–2012).