Nail is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for NAIL in dictionary:

VERB:
• to fasten with a long slender piece of metal
• fasten with a nail or nails
• detect or catch (someone, especially a suspected criminal)
• expose (a lie or other deception)
• (of a player) strike (a ball) forcefully and successfully
• (of a fielder) put (a runner) out by throwing to a base
• (of a player) defeat or outwit (an opponent)
• (of a player) secure (a victory) conclusively
• perform (an action or task) perfectly
• (of a man) have sexual intercourse with.
• attach something somewhere by means of nails
• take into custody
• hit hard
• succeed in obtaining a position
• succeed at easily
• locate exactly
• complete a pass
• attach (something) with nails
NOUN:
• a small metal spike with a broadened flat head, driven into wood to join things together or to serve as a hook
• a horny covering on the upper surface of the tip of the finger and toe in humans and other primates
• a hard growth on the upper mandible of some soft-billed birds.
• a medieval measure of length for cloth, equal to 21/4 inches.
• a medieval measure of wool, beef, or other commodity, roughly equal to 7 or 8 pounds.
• pointed piece of metal used to join two objects together
• the horny scale of plate of epidermis at the end of the fingers and toes of man and many apes.
• The basal thickened portion of the anterior wings of certain hemiptera.
• The terminal horny plate on the beak of ducks, and other allied birds.
• 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.
• To fasten with a nail or nails; to close up or secure by means of nails; as, to nail boards to the beams.
• To stud or boss with nails, or as with nails.
• 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.
• To spike, as a cannon.
• horny plate covering and protecting part of the dorsal surface of the digits
• a thin pointed piece of metal that is hammered into materials as a fastener
• a former unit of length for cloth equal to 1/16 of a yard
• an animal's claw
ADJECTIVE:
• A measure of length, being two inches and a quarter, or the sixteenth of a yard.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to fasten with a nail (a slender piece of metal)

Words related to NAIL

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Words that contain NAIL

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How to use NAIL in a sentence

• A pain, as if a nail were being driven in, is also often felt at one particular part of the head.
• Whistling cheerfully to himself, he stripped off the dark blue cotton trousers and oil-stained jacket that he was wearing and hung them on a nail just inside the door.
• Then he took out the right nail, and having surrounded the arm with its supporting sheet, let it fall gently on to the body.
• And, as we all know, when all you have is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail.
• When I had done, Glumdalclitch always carried back my boat into her closet, and hung it on a nail to dry.
• He lay just the same, with his eyes staring, but, putting out a hand to him, I knew at once that the man was dead as a nail.
• These can be made anywhere with hammer and nail and strips of wood.
• When he comes into the door of his house, nail him.
• The forecast was that there would not be a nail driven if the strike were not settled by Tuesday night.
• Bringing it near, they drove a nail into one end, and tying a rope round the nail, they fastened their prize to the stern of the boat.
• In painting the figure of the risen Christ, the old masters were accustomed to give prominence to the nail prints in hands and feet, and the wound in his side.
• He never could pass by an old, bent, used-up nail, bit of string, pin or a straight stick without picking it up and putting it away.
• Nail them boards to the post and to the sides of the house, and that was the end of it with some people.
• I endeavoured to remedy this evil, in some degree, by directing the servants of the house to nail a sheet across the upper portion of the perforated wood-work.
• Take the nail, a 10 or 20-penny wire or cut, and file it to a chisel edge, rounding it just enough to take the sharpness off so that it will not cut the metal.
• Now press down the hammer and place a nail in the position shown in the diagram so that the catch touches one of the teeth.
• Minchin, tooth and nail indeed, yet perhaps with more asperity than conviction, and certainly at times upon points which were hardly worth the fighting.
• The nail was driven a stroke deeper into the coffin by Rhode Island.
• I set to work to pull a nail with my cord, and was able to do it after considerable labor, but there was no hurry at all.
• After you spiked it through with that nail it naturally forgot about other people, and concentrated its attention on you.
• He could not bear the thought, and softly drawing on his boots, and taking his hat from the nail on which she had hung it, he slipped noiselessly out of the house.
• And she drew the nail out gently, but she poured nothing in, and instead the liquid fire streamed forth.
• The hands she knew so well, the square back, the square finger-tips, the long, square, high-mooned, deeply laid nail.

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