英：['tri:neɪl]
美：['triˌneɪl]
treenail如何读
treenail是什么意思
- n.大木钉；木栓
treenail英英释义
- n.a wooden peg that is used to fasten timbers in shipbuilding; water causes the peg to swell and hold the timbers fast
treenail词源英文解释
The first known use of treenail was in the 13th century
treenail 例句
1 For instance, it’s held together by large treenails, wooden pegs usually made of dry compressed timber, and copper pegs, which he said was common in ships of that era.
2 The wreck at Thorpeness appeared to be held together with wooden "treenails", or pins, a technique that dates from the 13th Century to the 19th Century, Mr Sherman said.
3 They had only two sledges; both were made of 2½ inch oak-planks, devoid of bolt-holes or treenails, and having but very few nail-holes.
4 For instance, Dr. Riess said, he has found far more iron nails than he would have expected of a ship from this era, and far fewer of the wood fasteners called treenails, or trunnels.
5 A year was added for hardwood treenails, and another for 'salting on the stocks.'
6 It can be driven like a bolt, and from this fact and its durability it is frequently used for treenails in ship-building in Manila, etc.
7 These scuttles were fitted with bed-screws fixed through false timbers into the real timbers, and covered with pieces of cork resembling treenails.
8 Not only had the copper sheathing and the planking disappeared, no doubt ground to powder, but there was not a trace of the timbers, the iron bolts, and the treenails which fastened them.
9 On grand, on gala days, in election times, some of the sons of St. Patrick used to perambulate the historical street, flourishing treenails, or shillaleghs—in order to preserve the peace!!! of course.
10 What a variety of playthings, too, in this fuel of ours; such inexplicable pieces, treenails and tholepins, trucks and sheaves, the lid of a locker, and a broken handspike.