nailed-on
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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Nailed on the right-hand door-post gleams a Mezuzah, a tiny metal case, containing a Biblical passage.
From The Melting-Pot by Zangwill, Israel
And there's old Corey, he has got a horseshoe Nailed on his doorstep to keep off the Witches, And all the same his wife has gone to prison.
From The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
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