Meaning

noun horny plate covering and protecting part of the dorsal surface of the digits

noun a thin pointed piece of metal that is hammered into materials as a fastener

noun a former unit of length for cloth equal to 1/16 of a yard

originFrom Middle English nail, nayl, Old English næġl, from Proto-West Germanic *nagl, from Proto-Germanic *naglaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃nogʰ- (“nail”). Cognates Compare North Frisian Nail (“nail”), Saterland Frisian Nail (“nail”), West Frisian neil, German and Low German Nagel, Dutch and Swedish nagel, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål negl, Norwegian Nynorsk nagl, Finnish naula (“nail”), Estonian…

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