ˈnail-sick, a. Naut.
[f. nail n. + sick a.]
Leaky at the nail-holes. (Cf. iron-sick.)
| 1865 Thoreau Cape Cod viii. 145 Much smaller waves soon make a boat ‘nail-sick’, as the phrase is. 1879 T. Warden Crossford II. 73 As the little craft was old and nailsick, she made a good deal of water in the ordinary way. |