'Nailing' definitions:
Definition of 'Nailing'
From: GCIDE
- Nail \Nail\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Nailed (n[=a]ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Nailing.] [AS. naeglian. 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. [1913 Webster]
- He is now dead, and nailed in his chest. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To stud or boss with nails, or as with nails. [1913 Webster]
- The rivets of your arms were nailed with gold. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- When they came to talk of places in town, you saw at once how I nailed them. --Goldsmith. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To spike, as a cannon. [Obs.] --Crabb. [1913 Webster]
- To nail an assertion or To nail a lie, 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. [1913 Webster]
Words containing 'Nailing'
- Nail,
- Nailed,
- On the nail,
- nail down,
- Clamp nails,
- Clout nail,
- Cut nail,
- Flat nail,
- Frost nail,
- Garden nail,
- Horsehoe nail,
- Lath nail,
- Nail ball,
- Nail plate,
- Root of a nail,
- Rose nail,
- Rother nail,
- Scupper nail,
- Stub nail,
- To nail a lie,
- To nail an assertion,
- Tooth and nail,
- Wire nail,
- coffin nail,
- eightpenny nail,
- fourpenny nail,
- nail enamel,
- nail hole,
- nail polish,
- nail pulling,
- nail removal,
- nail set,
- nail varnish,
- screw nails,
- sixpenny nail,
- tenpenny nail,
- wiggle nail,
- Bullen-nail,
- Nail-headed,
- To hit the nail on the head,
- hit the nail on the head,
- nail-biting,
- nail-head,
- Nail-headed characters,
- Nail-headed molding,
- nail-head molding,
- nail-tailed kangaroo,
- nail-tailed wallaby