How To Use Trunnel In A Sentence
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We have used tree nails (trunnels) for frame fixing, stone ballast, and hand made rope stropped blocks.
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But not in argufying over facts," retorted Trunnell.
Mr. Trunnell, Mate of the Ship "Pirate"
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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.’
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Surprisingly to me, the old bridge didn't have trunnels, it was all bolted.
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The "trunnel" at Circle and Constitution is no different.
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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.’
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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
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We have used tree nails (trunnels) for frame fixing, stone ballast, and hand made rope stropped blocks.
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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
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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.)
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Surprisingly to me, the old bridge didn't have trunnels, it was all bolted.
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I slept in a little trunnel bed under my mother's mistress 'bed.
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 1
