A nail for fixing laths upon battens.

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1388–9.  Abingdon Acc. (Camden), 54. In latthes et latthe nayl vjs. Ibid. (1422–3), 97. In lathnail et bordnail emptis iijs.

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1483–4.  in Swayne, Churchw. Acc. Sarum (1896), 33. For iiij ml. latez nayllez.

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1509–10.  Durh. Acc. Rolls (Surtees), 105. Pro vxx lattnalis.

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1540.  Ludlow Church. Acc. (Camden), 3. Payd for borde nayle and lathe neale for the same cofer.

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1667.  H. Stubbe, in Phil. Trans., II. 502. I heated a Lath-nail glowing hot.

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1881.  Young, Every Man his own Mechanic, § 330. The lath nail … used for nailing laths to quartering.

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