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hand-nail

hand-nail is the alternative form of handnail.

Meaning of handnail

Noun

handnail (plural handnails)

  1. (uncommon) Synonym of fingernail.
    • On opening the lead, the fleſh, hair, and toe and hand nails, were as perfect and ſound as though he had not been dead ſix hours.1772 February, Sylvanus Urban [pen name; Edward Cave], editor, The Gentleman’s Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, volume XLII, London: […] D. Henry, page 92
    Synonyms:
    fingernail

Forms of hand-nail

pluralhand-nails

Questions about hand-nail

What is hand-nail the alternative form of?
Hand-nail is the alternative form of handnail.

Words near hand-nail in the dictionary

  1. hand-mades
  2. hand-me-down
  3. hand-me-downs
  4. hand-me-on
  5. hand-me-ons
  6. hand-nail
  7. hand-nails
  8. hand-off
  9. hand-offs
  10. hand-operated
  11. hand-out

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