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Definitions for treenail
ˈtriˌneɪl, ˈtrɛn l, ˈtrʌn ltreenail

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. treenail, trenail, trunnelnoun

    a wooden peg that is used to fasten timbers in shipbuilding; water causes the peg to swell and hold the timbers fast

Wiktionary

  1. treenailnoun

    A wooden peg or pin used as a fastener.

Wikipedia

  1. 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 frames, covered bridges, wooden shipbuilding and boat building. It is driven into a hole bored through two (or more) pieces of structural wood (mortise and tenon).

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  1. treenail

    A treenail, also known as trunnel, is a wooden peg, pin, or dowel used to fasten pieces of wood together in woodworking, shipbuilding and timber framing. It is often used as a more traditional alternative to nails or screws.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Treenailnoun

    a long wooden pin used in fastening the planks of a vessel to the timbers or to each other

Wikidata

  1. Treenail

    A treenail, also trenail or trunnel, is a wooden peg 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. A method of firmly securing such a fastener 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. 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.

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  1. elaterin

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of treenail in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of treenail in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3


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