treenails

Dr. Riess said, he has found far more iron nails than he would have expected of a ship from this era, and far fewer of the wood fasteners called treenails, or trunnels.

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How did you replace planks without some fasteners, especially when the only substitute was treenails, and they didn't work that well for barely skilled lancers and peasants?

Colors of Chaos Modesitt, L. E. 1999

You produce treenails and you use them in your construction.

HIGHLIGHTS OF HAVANA PCC ASSESSMENT MEETING 1987

You produce treenails and you use them in your construction.

HAVANA PROVINCE PCC ASSESSMENT MEETING 1987

You produce treenails and distribute them in the form of day-care centers and family doctor home-offices

HAVANA PROVINCE PCC ASSESSMENT MEETING 1987

You produce treenails and distribute them in the form of day-care centers and family doctor home-offices [laughs] with the doctors already living there.

HIGHLIGHTS OF HAVANA PCC ASSESSMENT MEETING 1987

It can be driven like a bolt, and from this fact and its durability it is frequently used for treenails in ship-building in Manila, etc.

The Philippine Islands John Foreman

_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."

The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore

The sides of these buildings, and the ends above the line of roof-plate, were of frame construction, made of heavy oak timber, rudely squared, put together with treenails and boarded with oak, usually at an angle of forty-five degrees, thus making of every board a separate brace.

Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885 Various

Later in the afternoon I went along the beach again until I came to the foot of Mr. Tilley's land, and found his rough track across the cobble-stones and rocks to the field edge, where there was a heavy piece of old wreck timber, like a ship's bone, full of treenails.

Along Shore 1910