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Definition of Nailery
1. a place where nails are made [n NAILERIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nailery
Literary usage of Nailery
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of the Manufacture of Iron in All Ages: And Particularly in the by James Moore Swank (1892)
"... a forge in Elbert county, and a nailery in Chatham county. Two of these
enterprises were near the Atlantic coast, and were doubtless among the first of ..."
2. The Writings of Thomas Jefferson by Thomas Jefferson (1907)
"There will remain for the nailery Burwell, Jamy, Bedf. John, Bedf. Davy, Phill
Hub., Lewis, Bartlet, and Brown, enough for two fires. ..."
3. The Writings of Thomas Jefferson. by Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Adgate Lipscomb, Albert Ellery Bergh (1905)
"There will remain for the nailery Burwell, Jamy, Bedf. John, Bedf. Davy, Phill
Hub., Lewis, Bartlet, and Brown, enough for two fires. ..."
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