Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who nails.
- noun One whose occupation is the making of nails; also, one who sells nails.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One whose occupation is to make nails; a nail maker.
- noun One who fastens with, or drives, nails.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One whose occupation is to make nails; a nail maker.
- noun One who fastens with, or drives, nails.
- noun A
nailgun . - noun A piece of
dimensional lumber and/or plywood secured to thedeck or wall which provides a receiving medium for the fasteners. (Sometimes referred to as blocking.)
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a worker who attaches something by nailing it
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A nailer is a man who makes nails.] that knock about the poor collier-boys; and the nailers that file off their lads 'noses and hammer their fingers; and all the master sweeps, like my master Grimes?
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 2 Charles Herbert Sylvester
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Yes | No | Report from dave the bowhunter wrote 1 week 14 hours ago that is kind of like saying the guy with the nail gun is a better nailer cuz he can shoot more nails with a nail gun faster, so give him the trophy
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Yes | No | Report from dave the bowhunter wrote 1 week 14 hours ago that is kind of like saying the guy with the nail gun is a better nailer cuz he can shoot more nails with a nail gun faster, so give him the trophy
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In 1827 a sampling of occupations is: teamster, attorney, cooper, pail-maker, nailer, and tavern keeper.
Creating, Managing & Pres. Dig. Assets: Rochester City Directories 2007
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In 1827 a sampling of occupations is: teamster, attorney, cooper, pail-maker, nailer, and tavern keeper.
Archive 2007-02-01 2007
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As a low-level Nixon-nailer, and as a moral enabler and adamant defender of Bill's moral lapses and obstruction of justice and against his being disbarred.
<a href="http://althouse.blogspot.com/2008/01/how-were-bill-and-hillary-clinton.html" title="How were Bill and Hillary Clinton different — as law professors Ann Althouse 2008
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But as for chimney-sweeps, and collier-boys, and nailer lads, my sister has set good people to stop all that sort of thing; and very much obliged to her I am; for if she could only stop the cruel masters from ill-using poor children, I should grow handsome at least a thousand years sooner.
The Water Babies 2007
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Its ads use a photo of a pneumatic nailer bearing the color orange and the name “Pneu Fast.”
Noncompetitor nailed on false advertising claim Rebecca Tushnet 2006
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