Definition of Tenail

1. tenaille [n -S] - See also: tenaille

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tenail

tenace
tenaces
tenacious
tenaciously
tenaciousness
tenaciousnesses
tenacities
tenacity
tenacle
tenacles
tenacula
tenaculum
tenaculum forceps
tenaculums
tenacy
tenail (current term)
tenaille
tenailles
tenaillon
tenails
tenalgia
tenalgia crepitans
tenancies
tenancies by the entirety
tenancies for life
tenancy
tenancy by the entirety
tenancy for life
tenant
tenant-in-chief

Literary usage of Tenail

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A German and English Dictionary by Karl. Breul (1906)
"fore-teeth (of lames) ; tenail (Fort.). Comp. ... redan or tenail-system of fortification. ... n. tongs-shaped trench, tenail. ..."

2. The Roman History, from the Building of Rome to the Ruin of the Commonwealth by Nathaniel Hooke (1830)
"The fourth division of the Carthaginian fleet, in Ye|ff «f form of a tenail, kept close under the shore which 497. lay to the left of their long line of ..."

3. The Roman History: From the Building of Rome to the Ruin of the Commonwealth by Nathaniel Hooke (1759)
"... of the Carthaginian fleet, in form 196 Con-of a tenail, ... which in form of a tenail had been ported ..."

4. Miscellanies. Or A Miscellaneous Treatise; Containing Several Mathematical by William Emerson (1776)
"... tenail, making a re- go. entrant angle at C. ABCDEFG is a double tenail, 5i. making two re entrant angles at C, ..."

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