spike-nail
[spike n.2 Cf. MDu. and LG. spikernagel, MHG. spîchernagel (G. dial. speichernagel).]
A large and strong nail, now spec. one upwards of three (or four) inches in length, with a small head.
| 1314–5 MS. Acc. Exch. K.R. Bdle. 492 No. 19 (P.R.O.), Item in C spiknail emptis, v d. 1562 Ludlow Churchw. Acc. (Camden) 109 For spyke nayles to make the pewe. c 1608 in Swayne Sarum Churchw. Acc. (1896) 160, viij long spike nayles for the Refters, 12 d. 1769 Falconer Dict. Marine s.v. Kelson, It [the kelson] is secured by spike-nails [to the floor-timbers and crotches]. 1782 Phil. Trans. LXXII. 367 The spike-nail which had fastened the lead to it appeared perfectly sound. 1807 W. Irving Salmag. (1824) 198 He put a good store of beads, spike-nails and looking-glasses in his trunk. 1866 Harvard Mem. Biogr., F. C. Hopkinson II. 21 The method..was..to strike them alternately with a large Spike-nail. |