Unnailed

ppl. a. (UN-¹ 8.)

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1625. K. Long, trans. Barclay’s Argenis, I. i. 13. Two plankes artificially closed, but left unnayled.

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1748. Anson’s Voy., II. iii. 143. The scuttle of the fore-castle … happened to be unnailed. Ibid. The unnailed scuttle.

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1829. H. Hawthorn, Visit Babylon, 7. The unnailed branches of the honeysuckle.

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1896. Rural World, 4 Jan., 5/3. Leave the … nectarine trees unnailed to keep the blossoms as backward as possible.

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