Now updated for CSW19. New words, if any, and new inflections of existing words, are shown in red.
brad | a thin, flat, small-headed nail; (verb) to fasten with a brad. |
cuphead | a hemispherical bolthead or rivet-head. |
doornail | a large-headed nail. |
hobnail | a thick and strong nail for shoeing horses; a blunt projection, esp. in cut or molded glassware; (verb) to fit eg a shoe with hobnails. |
nail | a small usually metal spike with a head, used for fastening wood, etc; (verb) to fasten with a nail. |
nailhead | the head of a nail. |
renail | to nail again. |
retack | to tack again. |
screwlike | like a screw. |
setscrew | a type of screw. |
sparable | a small, headless, wedge-shaped shoemakers' nail. |
tacket | (Scots) a small, broad-headed nail, a hobnail. |
tackety | like a tacket or hobnail > TACKETIER, TACKETIEST. |
tackless | without tacks. |
thumbtack | a broad-headed tack; (verb) to fasten with a thumbtack. |
tintack | a tack coated with tin. |
untack | to separate, as what is tacked. |
woodscrew | a tapered screw for fastening pieces of wood. |
wormer | a screw fixed on the end of a rod, for withdrawing the charge or wad from a muzzle-loading gun. |