Synonyms:
nail
Meaning: horny plate covering and protecting part of the dorsal surface of the digits
Synonyms:
nail
Meaning: a thin pointed piece of metal that is hammered into materials as a fastener
verb
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
nail
Meaning: attach something somewhere by means of nails; "nail the board onto the wall"
Synonyms:
collar, nail, apprehend, arrest, pick_up, nab, cop
Meaning: take into custody; "the police nabbed the suspected criminals"
Synonyms:
smash, nail, boom, blast
Meaning: hit hard; "He smashed a 3-run homer"
Usage examples
They might nail me for perjury besides.”
The room was empty, and the sword hanging from a nail.
A white spot in the nail, when it comes, means a present.
You've hit the right nail upon the head, and are as safe here as you could be.
I have in my possession a nail, half iron and half silver, which I made myself.
A nail of this description was, for a long time, in the cabinet of the Grand Duke of Tuscany.
All that you have seen to-night has been make-believe; I'm not the woman to let the black of my nail suffer for such a camel, much less die!"
TALC SCHIST consists of quartz and TALC, a light-colored magnesian mineral of greasy feel, and so soft that it can be scratched with the thumb nail.
Then that simple Talus dipped himself in the sea, till it hissed, and roared, and smoked; and came and knelt before Medeia, and showed her the secret nail.
For they say that he has but one vein in all his body, filled with liquid fire; and that this vein is closed with a nail; but I know not where that nail is placed.