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nailfast

nailfast adjective: permanently attached.

Adjective

nailfast (not comparable)

  1. Permanently attached.
    • For carrying structures concrete must be expected to be used in the future, and if the concrete can be made nailfast and with a cement of a considerably quicker setting, it will satisfy the demands of to-day.1957, W. R. Simonsen, Johannes F. Munch-Petersen, Prefabrication in Denmark, page 100
    • She arranged that the great bedsteads and such other things as were nailfast and heirlooms, should remain for the use of the tenants, that they might the better entertain travelling Friends.1880, Frances Anne Budge, Annals of the Early Friends: A Series of Biographical Sketches

Origin of nailfast

From nail + fast.

Questions about nailfast

What does nailfast mean?
Nailfast means permanently attached.
What part of speech is nailfast?
Nailfast is an adjective.

Words near nailfast in the dictionary

  1. naileries
  2. nailers
  3. nailery
  4. nailest
  5. naileth
  6. nailfast
  7. nailfile
  8. nailfiles
  9. nailfold
  10. nailfolds
  11. nailful

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