NAILED
Verb
nailed
simple past tense and past participle of nail
Adjective
nailed (not comparable)
Having nails (often of a specified kind).
Anagrams
• Aldine, Daniel, Delian, Delina, Denali, Leanid, alined, daniel, deal in, dealin', denail, denial, dienal, enlaid, inlead, lained, lead in, lead-in, leadin'
Source: Wiktionary
NAIL
Nail, n. Etym: [AS. nægel, akin to D. nagel, OS nagal, G. nagel,
Icel. nagl, nail (in sense 1), nagli nail (in sense 3), Sw. nagel
nail (in senses 1 and 3), Dan. nagle, Goth. ganagljan to nail, Lith.
nagas nail (in sense 1), Russ. nogote, L. unguis, Gr. nakha.
1. (Anat.)
Definition: the horny scale of plate of epidermis at the end of the fingers
and toes of man and many apes.
His nayles like a briddes claws were. Chaucer.
Note: The nails are strictly homologous with hoofs and claws. When
compressed, curved, and pointed, they are called talons or claws, and
the animal bearing them is said to be unguiculate; when they incase
the extremities of the digits they are called hoofs, and the animal
is ungulate.
2. (Zoöl.)
(a) The basal thickened portion of the anterior wings of certain
hemiptera.
(b) The terminal horny plate on the beak of ducks, and other allied
birds.
3. A slender, pointed piece of metal, usually with a head, used for
fastening pieces of wood or other material together, by being driven
into or through them.
Note: The different sorts of nails are named either from the use to
which they are applied, from their shape, from their size, or from
some other characteristic, as shingle, floor, ship-carpenters', and
horseshoe nails, roseheads, diamonds, fourpenny, tenpenny (see
Penny), chiselpointed, cut, wrought, or wire nails, etc.
4. A measure of length, being two inches and a quarter, or the
sixteenth of a yard. Nail ball (Ordnance), a round projectile with an
iron bolt protruding to prevent it from turning in the gun.
– Nail plate, iron in plates from which cut nails are made.
– On the nail, in hand; on the spot; immediately; without delay or
time of credit; as, to pay money on the nail. "You shall have ten
thousand pounds on the nail." Beaconsfield.
– To hit the nail on the head, to hit most effectively; to do or
say a thing in the right way.
Nail, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Nailed; p. pr. & vb. n. Nailing.] Etym:
[AS. næglian. See Nail, n.]
1. To fasten with a nail or nails; to close up or secure by means of
nails; as, to nail boards to the beams.
He is now dead, and nailed in his chest. Chaucer.
2. To stud or boss with nails, or as with nails.
The rivets of your arms were nailed with gold. Dryden.
3. To fasten, as with a nail; to bind or hold, as to a bargain or to
acquiescence in an argument or assertion; hence, to catch; to trap.
When they came to talk of places in town, you saw at once how I
nailed them. Goldsmith.
4. To spike, as a cannon. [Obs.] Crabb. To nail a lie or an
assertion, etc., to detect and expose it, so as to put a stop to its
currency; -- an expression probably derived from the former practice
of shopkeepers, who were accustomed to nail bad or counterfeit pieces
of money to the counter.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition