NOUN
- a wooden peg that is used to fasten timbers in shipbuilding; water causes the peg to swell and hold the timbers fast
How To Use treenail In A Sentence
- Boring holes in oak ships' timbers for the wooden pegs (treenails) or iron bolts required long augers of high strength.
- Tamarac hulls went sound for twenty years, and sometimes forty, especially when hardwood treenails were used -- a treenail being a bolt that did the service of a nail in woodwork or a rivet in steel plating. All Afloat A Chronicle of Craft and Waterways
- The Ship is almost compleated, and ready to come out of Dock, as she was only spiked and treeniled [treenail]; and to take in a load of Salt which is a weighty loading I thought propper to butt boalt her: I have used every Endevour to obtain Freight some way of other, but fruteless. Collections
- The ribs spring from the solid mass of their own floors bolted in between the keelson and the keel; and the planking, or skin, is let into the rabbets, or side grooves, of the keel and firmly fastened to the ribs throughout by hardwood pegs called treenails. All Afloat A Chronicle of Craft and Waterways
- The remaining futtocks are not attached to floors, but simply treenailed to the hull planking.
- Boring holes in oak ships' timbers for the wooden pegs (treenails) or iron bolts required long augers of high strength.