Crossword-Solution: TREENAILS 9 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

And, in turn, what endless delight children find in the manipulation of a fire! What a variety of playthings, too, in this fuel of ours; such inexplicable pieces, treenails and tholepins, trucks and sheaves, the lid of a locker, and a broken handspike.

Her crew would not assist to clew up the sails, the anchor had been seized to the chain-plates and could not be let go, and when the gang from the _Falmouth_ attempted to cut the buoy ropes with which it was secured, the "crew attacked them with hatchets and treenails, made sail and obliged them to quit the ship." Being by that, time astern of the _Falmouth's_ guns, they too made their escape.

Lay rib to rib and beam to beam, And drive the treenails free; Nor faithless joint nor yawning seam Shall tempt the searching sea! Where'er the keel of our good ship The sea's rough field shall plough,-- Where'er her tossing spars shall drip With salt-spray caught below-- That ship must heed her master's beck, Her helm obey his hand, And seamen tread her reeling deck As if they trod the land.

Patrick used to perambulate the historical street, flourishing treenails, or _shillaleghs_--in order to _preserve the peace!!!_ of course.

Not only had the copper sheathing and the planking disappeared, no doubt ground to powder, but there was not a trace of the timbers, the iron bolts, and the treenails which fastened them.