lead-nails

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• Lead

  ·noun An open way in an ice field. II. Lead ·noun A <<Lode>>. III. Lead ·noun The course of a rope...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• lead

  n. (pronounced leed), a miningterm. In the Western United States and elsewhere, the termlead in min...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• lead

  The direction in which running ropes lead fair, and come down to the deck. Also, in Arctic seas, a c...

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• Lead

  This is one of the most common of metals, found generally in veins of rocks, though seldom in a meta...

  William Smith's Bible Dictionary

• Black lead

  ·- Plumbago; graphite. It leaves a blackish mark somewhat like lead. ·see <<Graphite>>. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Pot lead

  ·add. ·- Graphite, or black lead, often used on the bottoms of racing vessels to diminish friction. ...

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• fair-lead

  Is applied to ropes as suffering the least friction in a block, when they are said to lead fair. ...

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• hand-lead

  A small lead used in the channels, or chains, when approaching land, and for sounding in rivers or h...

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• lead, sounding

  An instrument for discovering the depth of water; it is a tapered cylinder of lead, of 7, 14, or 28 ...

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• lead-line

  A line attached to the upper end of the sounding-lead. (See hand-line and deep-sea line.) ...

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• milled lead

  Sheet lead. ...

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• sounding-lead

  See lead. ...

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• clout-nails

  Short nails with large heads for the soles of strong shoes.--Hartshorne's Shropshire. ...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• hang-nails

  Slivers, which hang from the roots of the nails, and reach to the tips of the fingers.--Forby's Voca...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• ang-nails

  corns on the feet. Cumb. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• boat-nails

  Those supplied for the carpenter's use are of various lengths, generally rose-headed, square at the ...

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• clamp-nails

  Such nails as are used to fasten clamps; they are short and stout, with large heads. ...

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• clench-nails

  They are much used in boat-building, being such as can be driven without splitting the boards, and d...

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• clincher-nails

  Those which are of malleable metal, as copper, wrought iron, &c., which clinch by turning back the p...

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• clout-nails

  [Fr. clouter]. To stud with nails, as ships' bottoms and piles were before the introduction of sheet...

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• composition nails

  Those which are made of mixed metal, and which, being largely used for nailing on copper sheathing, ...

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• copper-nails

  These are chiefly used in boat-building, and for plank nails in the vicinity of the binnacle, as iro...

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• deck-nails

  A kind of spike with a snug head, commonly made in a diamond form; they are single or double deck-na...

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• doubling-nails

  The nails commonly used in doubling. ...

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• flat-nails

  Small sharp-pointed nails with flat thin heads, longer than tacks, for nailing the scarphs of moulds...

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• port-nails

  These are classed double and single: they are similar to clamp-nails, and like them are used for fas...

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• ribbing-nails

  Similar to deck-nails, but not so fine; they have large round heads with rings, so as to prevent the...

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• scupper-nails

  Short nails with very broad flat heads, used to nail the flaps of the scuppers, so as to retain the ...

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• sheathing-nails

  These are used to fasten wood-sheathing, and prevent the filling-nails from tearing it too much. Tho...

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• spike-nails

  See deck-nails. ...

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• tree-nails

  Long cylindrical oak or other hard wood pins, driven through the planks and timbers of a vessel to c...

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• weight-nails

  Somewhat similar to deck-nails, but not so fine, and with square heads; for fastening cleats and the...

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• heave the lead

  To take soundings with the hand lead-line. "Get a cast of the lead," with the deep-sea lead and line...

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• bag of nails

  He squints like a bag of nails; i. e. his eyes are directed as many ways as the points of a bag of n...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• jack-sharp-nails

  a prickle-back ; called also, in Middlesex, a strickle-back. Derb. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• double deck-nails

  See deck-nails. ...

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• nails of sorts

  Nails used in carpentry under the denominations of 4, 6, 8, 10, 24, 30, and 40 penny-nails, all of d...

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• lead, to strike the

  See above. Used figurativelyfor to succeed. 1874. Garnet Walch, `Head over Heels,' p. 74: «We coul...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• cast of the lead

  The act of heaving the lead into the sea to ascertain what depth of water there is. (See also heave ...

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• ready with the lead!

  A caution when the vessel is luffed up to deaden her way, followed by "heave." ...

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• odds plut and her nails

  A Welch oath, frequently mentioned in a jocular manner by persons, it is hoped, ignorant of its mean...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose