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nail

English

Pronunciation

  • enPR: n?l, IPA(key): /ne?l/, [ne???]
  • Rhymes: -e?l

Etymology 1

From Middle English nail, nayl, Old English næ?l, from Proto-Germanic *naglaz (compare Saterland Frisian Nail (nail), West Frisian neil, Low German Nagel, Dutch nagel, German Nagel, Danish negl, Swedish nagel), from Proto-Indo-European *h?nog?- (nail) (compare Irish ionga, Latin unguis, Albanian nyell (ankle, hard part of a limb), Lithuanian nagas, Russian ????? (nogá, foot, leg), ??????? (nógot?, nail), Ancient Greek ???? (ónux), Persian ????? (nâxon), Sanskrit ?? (nakhá)).

Noun

nail (plural nails)

  1. The thin, horny plate at the ends of fingers and toes on humans and some other animals.
  2. The basal thickened portion of the anterior wings of certain hemiptera.
  3. The terminal horny plate on the beak of ducks, and other allied birds.
  4. The claw of a bird or other animal.
  5. A spike-shaped metal fastener used for joining wood or similar materials. The nail is generally driven through two or more layers of material by means of impacts from a hammer or other device. It is then held in place by friction.
  6. A round pedestal on which merchants once carried out their business, such as the four nails outside The Exchange, Bristol.
  7. An archaic English unit of length equivalent to 1?20 of an ell or 1?16 of a yard (2+1?4 inches or 5.715 cm).
Derived terms
Translations

See also

  • claw
  • talon

Etymology 2

From Middle English naylen, from Old English næ?lan.

Verb

nail (third-person singular simple present nails, present participle nailing, simple past and past participle nailed)

  1. (transitive) To fix (an object) to another object using a nail.
    Synonyms: pin, rivet, screw; see also Thesaurus:join
  2. (intransitive) To drive a nail.
    Synonym: hammer
  3. (transitive) To stud or boss with nails, or as if with nails.
    • The rivets of their arms were nail'd with gold.
  4. (slang) To catch.
    Synonyms: arrest, collar, nick; see also Thesaurus:capture
  5. (transitive, slang) To expose as a sham.
  6. (transitive, slang) To accomplish (a task) completely and successfully.
    Synonyms: ace, fullbring, fulfill
  7. (transitive, slang) To hit (a target) effectively with some weapon.
  8. (transitive, vulgar, slang) Of a male, to engage in sexual intercourse with.
    Synonyms: dick, pound, rail, screw; see also Thesaurus:copulate with
  9. To spike, as a cannon.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Crabb to this entry?)
  10. (transitive) To nail down: to make certain, or confirm.
    Synonyms: clinch, fix, lock down, pin down
Translations

See also

  • Wikipedia disambiguation page on both meanings of nail
  • Wikipedia disambiguation page on spike
  • Nail in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Anagrams

  • I-lan, INLA, Ilan, LNAI, Lain, Lani, Lian, Lina, Nila, anil, lain

Bouyei

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /n?i??/

Etymology 1

Noun

nail

  1. grandmother

Etymology 2

Noun

nail

  1. snow
  2. ice

Middle English

Noun

nail

  1. Alternative form of nayl

Welsh

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /nai?l/

Noun

nail

  1. Nasal mutation of dail.

Mutation

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coffin

English

Alternative forms

  • cophin (archaic)

Etymology

From Middle English coffyn, from Old Northern French cofin (sarcophagus", earlier "basket, coffer), from Latin cophinus (basket), a loanword from Ancient Greek ??????? (kóphinos, a basket). Doublet of coffer.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?k?f?n/
  • (US) IPA(key): /?k?f?n/
  • (US, cotcaught merger, Canada) IPA(key): /?k?f?n/
  • Rhymes: -?f?n
  • Rhymes: -?f?n

Noun

coffin (plural coffins)

  1. A rectangular closed box in which the body of a dead person is placed for burial.
    Synonym: (US) casket
    • 20 May 2018, Hadley Freeman in The Guardian, Is Meghan Markle the American the royals have needed all along?
      I’d always found the royals a cold proposition, Diana excepted, but the sight of that little boy, his head bent, not daring to look up at his mother’s coffin in front of him was, and remains, genuinely heartbreaking.
  2. (cartomancy) The eighth Lenormand card.
  3. (archaic) A casing or crust, or a mold, of pastry, as for a pie.
    • 1596, The Good Huswife's Jewell
      Take your mallard and put him into the iuyce of the sayde Onyons, and season him with pepper, and salte, cloues and mace, then put your Mallard into the coffin with the saide iuyce of the onyons.
  4. (obsolete) A conical paper bag, used by grocers.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Nares to this entry?)
  5. The hollow crust or hoof of a horse's foot, below the coronet, in which is the coffin bone.
  6. A storage container for nuclear waste.

Usage notes

  • The type of coffin with upholstery and a half-open lid (mostly in the United States) is called a casket.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

coffin (third-person singular simple present coffins, present participle coffining, simple past and past participle coffined)

  1. (transitive) To place in a coffin.
    • 2007, Barbara Everett, "Making and Breaking in Shakespeare's Romances," London Review of Books, 29:6, page 21:
      The chest in which she is coffined washes ashore and is brought to the Lord Cerimon.

Synonyms

  • encoffin

Translations

Further reading

  • coffin on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Middle English

Noun

coffin (plural)

  1. Alternative form of coffyn

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