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PRONUNCIATION OF TRENAIL

trenail  [ˈtriːneɪl] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TRENAIL

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determiner
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Trenail is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES TRENAIL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

trenail

Treenail

A treenail, also trenail, trennel, or trunnel, is a wooden peg pin, or dowel used to fasten pieces of wood together, especially in timber frame construction and wooden shipbuilding. It is an ancient technology. Covered bridges in the U.S. often use treenails as fasteners. Many such bridges are still in use. Locust is a favorite wood when making trunnels in shipbuilding due to its strength and rot resistance and red oak is typical in buildings. A method of firmly securing such a fastener in shipbuilding was to cut a parallel peg of a softer wood, and then expand its outer end with a wedge of much harder wood driven into it called a foxtail wedge. Ancient shipbuilding used treenails to bind the boat together. They had the advantage of not giving rise to "nail-sickness", a term for decay accelerated and concentrated around metal fasteners. Increased water content causes wood to expand, so that treenails gripped the planks tighter as they absorbed water. Similar wooden trenail fastenings were used as alternatives to metal spikes to secure rail-support "chairs" to wooden sleepers in early Victorian times.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH TRENAIL


agnail
ˈæɡˌneɪl
doornail
ˈdɔːˌneɪl
fingernail
ˈfɪŋɡəˌneɪl
Gangnail
ˈɡæŋˌneɪl
hangnail
ˈhæŋˌneɪl
hobnail
ˈhɒbˌneɪl
nail
neɪl
renail
riːˈneɪl
snail
sneɪl
tenaille
tɛˈneɪl
thumbnail
ˈθʌmˌneɪl
toenail
ˈtəʊˌneɪl
unnail
ʌnˈneɪl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TRENAIL

tremulousness
trench
trench coat
trench fever
trench foot
trench knife
trench knives
trench mortar
trench mouth
trench warfare
trenchancy
trenchant
trenchantly
Trenchard
trencher
trencher cap
trencherman
trenchermen
trenches
trend

WORDS THAT END LIKE TRENAIL

as dead as a doornail
clout nail
coffin nail
dead as a doornail
dew snail
edible snail
garden snail
on the nail
pond snail
ramshorn snail
Roman snail
sea snail
stub nail
tooth and nail
treenail

Synonyms and antonyms of trenail in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «trenail» into 25 languages

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trenail
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trenail
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trenail
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trenail
380 millions of speakers
ar

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trenail
280 millions of speakers

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trenail
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trenail
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trenail
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trenail
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Trenail
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trenail
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trenail
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trenail
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Trenail
85 millions of speakers
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trenail
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trenail
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Trenail
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

trenail
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

trenail
65 millions of speakers

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trenail
50 millions of speakers

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trenail
40 millions of speakers

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trenail
30 millions of speakers
el

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trenail
15 millions of speakers
af

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trenail
14 millions of speakers
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trenail
10 millions of speakers
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trenail
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of trenail

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «TRENAIL»

The term «trenail» is used very little and occupies the 177.565 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «TRENAIL» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about trenail

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TRENAIL»

Discover the use of trenail in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to trenail and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Railway Appliances: A Description of Details of Railway ...
A combination of spikes and trenails is in use, known as the hollow compressed trenail (fig. 46). This trenail consists of a hollow cylinder of compressed wood, and the centre of the cylinder receives an iron spike. The trenail is first driven into a ...
Sir John Wolfe Wolfe Barry, 1904
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Railway Appliances: A Description of Details of Railway ...
A combination of spikes and trenails is in use, known as the hollow compressed trenail (fig. 46). This trenail consists of a hollow cylinder of compressed wood, and the centre of the cylinder receives an iron spike. The trenail is first driven into a ...
John Wolfe Barry, 1881
3
Ships' Fastenings: From Sewn Boat to Steamship
68 Chapter Six TRENAIL WEb&E D PERSNDICULAR TO THE RUN OF PLANK GRAIN V INNER PLANKS, TRENAIL DRIVEN HOME : OUTER - - WEDGECUT FLUSH PEC Figure 40. Short and through treenails, showing treenail wedges and ...
Mike McCarthy, 2005
4
Patents for Inventions: Abridgments of Specifications : ...
It is preferred that the hole thus " drilled into a wood trenail should be cylindrical in order to its " receiving a cylindrical metal spike, which should, as nearly as " may be, fit the interior of the hole closely without requiring any " considerable force ...
‎1873
5
Bulletin - American Railway Engineering Association
He states that the results from practical tests during more than four years have given full confirmation to the theoretical expectations he had on its first appearance. The Paris-Lyon-Mediterranean tests showed that with the Collet trenail in pine ...
American Railway Engineering Association, 1909
6
Patents for Inventions: Abridgments of Specifications ...
It is preferred that the hole thus " drilled into a wood trenail should be cylindrical in order to its " receiving a cylindrical metal spike, which should, as nearly as " may be, fit the interior of the hole closely without requiring any " considerable force ...
Great Britain. Patent Office, 1873
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Proceedings
He states that the results from practical tests during more than four years have given full confirmation to the theoretical expectations he had on its first appearance. The Paris-Lyon-Mediterranean tests showed that with the Collet trenail in pine ...
American Railway Engineering Association, 1909
8
Patents for inventions. Abridgments of specifications
It is preferred that the hole thus " drilled into a wood trenail should be cylindrical in order to its " receiving a cylindrical metal spike, which should, as nearly as " may be, fit the interior of the hole closely without requiring any " considerable force ...
Patent office, 1873
9
Proceedings of the Annual Convention
He states that the results from practical tests during more than four years have given full confirmation to the theoretical expectations he had on its first appearance. The Paris-Lyon-Mediterranean tests showed that with the Collet trenail in pine ...
American Railway Engineering Association, 1909
10
The Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of ...
Met or borer, varying from an inch to two inches in diameter, according to the size of the trenail to he inserted. The head of the auger is provided with a cross handle of considerable length, which furnishes a leverage to the workman using the ...
Charles Knight, 1841

7 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TRENAIL»

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Water project in pipeline for poor St Elizabeth community
Trenail, a district situated in the community of Maggoty in North West St Elizabeth, is set to benefit from a $16.7-million water project under the Basis Needs Trust ... «Jamaica Gleaner, Feb 15»
2
Gautier Police Department releases crime reports for Oct. 24 - 30 …
U.S. 90, Albert Trenail Evans, 30, 3212 Old Mobile Highway, Pascagoula, was arrested on two outstanding warrants for malicious mischief and contempt of court ... «Mississippi Press, Nov 14»
3
Observant recorder of nature
"An oak beam full of wooden trenails, suggested the wreck of the Akbar; a very few pieces of rusty iron plate, that of the City of Cashmere. A couple of smashed ... «Timaru Herald, Jul 14»
4
Historic Story City barn to be demolished
Only wooden pins/pegs, called trenails, were used for putting together the large barn. Rectangular in shape, these “multiple use” barns took the place of smaller ... «Ames Tribune, Aug 13»
5
Chunk of local history unearthed on shores of Bear River
It contains no metal nails but is held together with oak trunnels (treenails, trenails) – wooden pegs or dowels, which swell in the presence of water and hold the ... «Digby Courier, May 13»
6
Bell rock lighthouse
The method of trenails and wedges was carried out so that the lower part of the lighthouse would remain upright when covered by high tides. Each stone had ... «The Engineer, Jan 11»
7
The 1770 wreck of the Industry at Kennebunk Beach
A 6-inch trenail (a wood fastening peg) removed from the planking had an unusual, diamond-shaped wedge hammered into the end of it. Sandy Brook, editor of ... «Seacoastonline.com, May 10»

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