Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A machine for driving nails, used in box-making. The nails are put in the machine and are driven by a single stroke of a reciprocating plunger.
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Examples
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The Hurt Locker is like having your heart operated on by a construction worker wielding a power pneumatic nail-driver.
Great Poster for Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker « FirstShowing.net 2008
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My rifle was a neat, hair-triggered Billinghurst, carrying sixty round balls to the pound, a muzzle-loader, of course, and a nail-driver.
Woodcraft George Washington Sears 1855
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Watching Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker, which I just came out of, is like having your heart operated on by a construction worker weilding a power pneumatic nail-driver.
Hollywood Elsewhere 2008
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