toenail
Carpentry. to secure with oblique nailing.
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How to use toenail in a sentence
She looked down at her purple toenails and tensed her body, raising her left heel off its footrest for a half-second.
Two kids, a loaded gun and the man who left a 4-year-old to die | John Woodrow Cox | September 27, 2021 | Washington PostI knew I’d end the summer with fewer toenails than I’d started with.
Aardvarks Clipping Extraneous Toenails, Having Extremely Orgasmic Relations, Yearly!
Just keep in mind that melanoma tends to show up in hard-to-find areas on darker skin, like under hands and feet, inside the nose and mouth, and under fingernails and toenails.
If you ever put your hands on me again, I'm gonna snip your little nuts off with my toenail clippers!
Jenny Lewis on 'The Voyager,' the End of Rilo Kiley, and High School Classmate Angelina Jolie | Marlow Stern | August 17, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
Yesterday, Ezra Klein reported the strange case of a hospital that charged $1,206 to clip a toenail.
She takes care of our elderly in the neighborhood, if someone has toenail they can't clip, she'll do that for them.
Now winter was a dull inaction, a period of discontent, in which thought gnawed at him like an ingrowing toenail.
Poor Man's Rock | Bertrand W. SinclairFoot-ball produces what may be called the endogenous or ingrowing toenail, stringhalt and mania.
A Guest at the Ludlow and Other Stories | Edgar Wilson (Bill) NyeSo the horse stands on the end of his middle toe, and his hind hoof is his middle toenail.
Natural Wonders | Edwin Tenney BrewsterA toenail, particularly twisted, has been traced through three generations, on the same foot and toe.
Observations on Madness and Melancholy | John HaslamShe complained exceedingly and for a long time about the thickening of a toenail, even after the thickened part had been removed.
Collected Papers on Analytical Psychology | C. G. Jung
British Dictionary definitions for toenail
/ (ˈtəʊˌneɪl) /
a thin horny translucent plate covering part of the dorsal surface of the end joint of each toe: Related adjectives: ungual, ungular
carpentry a nail driven obliquely, as in joining one beam at right angles to another
printing slang a parenthesis
(tr) carpentry to join (beams) by driving nails obliquely
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