treenail

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.