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clout-nails

clout-nails is the plural of clout-nail.

Meaning of clout-nail

Noun

clout-nail (plural clout-nails)

  1. (obsolete) A wrought-iron nail heaving a large flat head, and used for fastening clouts to axletrees, plowshares, etc., also for studding timber, and for various purposes.
    • They must have been light, for, reckoned by the hundred, the average is not very different from that of the hundred-weight of iron; and clout-nails must have been of moderate size, as the value varies very little from that of horseshoe-nails.1866, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, volume 1, page 546

Questions about clout-nails

What is clout-nails the plural of?
Clout-nails is the plural of clout-nail.

Words near clout-nails in the dictionary

  1. clout lists
  2. clout nail
  3. clout nails
  4. clout on
  5. clout-nail
  6. clout-nails
  7. clouted
  8. clouted cream
  9. clouted creams
  10. clouted on
  11. clouter

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