trunnel

How To Use trunnel In A Sentence

• We have used tree nails (trunnels) for frame fixing, stone ballast, and hand made rope stropped blocks.
• But not in argufying over facts," retorted Trunnell. Mr. Trunnell, Mate of the Ship "Pirate"
• The timbers are often cut and dressed by hand, jointed and interlocked in the traditional way, and fastened throughout with wood pegs called trunnels, or ‘tree nails.’
• Surprisingly to me, the old bridge didn't have trunnels, it was all bolted.
• The "trunnel" at Circle and Constitution is no different. Gazette.com :
• The timbers are often cut and dressed by hand, jointed and interlocked in the traditional way, and fastened throughout with wood pegs called trunnels, or ‘tree nails.’
• Either a pegged tenon or a trunnel a peg at least one and one-half inches in diameter should position the rafter securely. BUILDING THE TIMBER FRAME HOUSE
• We have used tree nails (trunnels) for frame fixing, stone ballast, and hand made rope stropped blocks.
• Into each of these we graved a piece of plank, and in one of them we drove a trunnel where none had been before. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 09 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time
• But 'Liza was not inclined to leave the entertainment of gentlemen to "gals," whom she declared to be, for the most part, "wu'fless trunnel-baid trash. The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VII. (of X.)