Definition of trenail. Meaning of trenail. Synonyms of trenail

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Definition of trenail

Trenail
Trenail Tre"nail`, n. (Shipbuilding) Same as Treenail.
trenail
Treenail Tree"nail`, n. [Tree + nail.] (Shipbuilding) A long wooden pin used in fastening the planks of a vessel to the timbers or to each other. [Written also trenail, and trunnel.]

Meaning of trenail from wikipedia

- A treenail, also trenail, trennel, or trunnel, is a wooden peg, pin, or dowel used to fasten pieces of wood together, especially in timber frames, covered...
- also for making wooden butter knives. It was also frequently used for trenails in wooden shipbuilding by shipwrights for its tough properties. In Estonia...
- each yard (90 cm or 35 inches) of plank. In many early ships treenails (trenails, trunnels) were used to fasten large timbers. First, a hole about 20 mm...
- the outside. Chairs have been fixed to the sleeper using wooden spikes (trenails), ****s, fang-bolts or spikes. In most of the world, flat-bottomed rail...
- by 10in (254mm) by 5in (127mm). Chairs were secured to the sleepers by trenails (steel spikes driven through a timber sleeve) or three chair-****s on...
- Symmetrical ribs or frames were then lashed to the strakes or secured with trenails. Over most of the ribs was laid a slender crossbeam and a thwart. The mast...
- clinker-built with iron nails. Ribs were attached to the strakes with cords or trenails, and thwarts installed. The mast was then inserted in the mast step. The...
- Quy Nhơn Almost completed offs**** fishing hull, Quy Nhơn Plank fixing, trenails and red lead paint, Quy Nhơn Repaired frames, barge hull, Sa Đéc, Mekong...
- underwater chain-saws. The fragments removed were taken apart and studied trenail by trenail on land, then re****embled exactly as before and returned to their...
- whereby each arch was made from multiple layers of timbers held together by trenails and supported on stone pillars. The viaduct was rebuilt in iron between...