nail-head

May 4, 2008 at 2:53 pm as to “never quite so dumb”……nail-head, firmly impacted by hammer, a large one.

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I would make Cyprianus pull the damn tooth out with a set of nail-head pliers.

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Sunlight burst into the office, washing away the shadows that covered her high-back, blood-red, nail-head leather chair, the bookcases and standing lamp.

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Sunlight burst into the office, washing away the shadows that covered her high-back, blood-red, nail-head leather chair, the bookcases and standing lamp.

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Habit and experience, tested in atmospheric light, will control the muscles, and direct the blow at the very point where the nail-head is not.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873

It is essential that the face of the hammer be kept free from glue in order to avoid its sticking on the nail-head and so bending the nail.

Handwork in Wood

Let the architect's attention be directed to the western doorway, and also to the interior of the church; and here, in good preservation, he will see excellent specimens of their mode of ornamenting the moldings by the cable, the lozenge, the cheveron, the nail-head, the billet, &c. &c., ornaments peculiar to the

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 274, September 22, 1827

To keep the nailset in its place on the nail-head it may be held closely against the third finger of the left hand, which rests on the wood close to the nail.

Handwork in Wood

To the right of this and along the east wall of the cloister, are arched recesses of a late style, and in the south wall is an arcade of trefoil form, with nail-head enrichments.

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The old hinges had given, allowing it to sag and catch against a raised nail-head in the sill.

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