coffin nail

Historical Examples

• Put down those cards and chuck that coffin-nail into the stove.

  Jim Spurling, Fisherman

  Albert Walter Tolman

• I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade.

  A Christmas Carol

  Charles Dickens

• Later, I had a ring made of the coffin-nail, and I still wear it on the fore-finger of my right hand.

  Told by the Death's Head

  Mr Jkai

• The ring made of the coffin-nail, which I wore on my thumb, constantly reminded me of my vow.

  Told by the Death's Head

  Mr Jkai

• I was sitting on the opposite side of the littered-up table, engaged in rolling a pill, that is to say, a coffin-nail.

  The Adventures of the Eleven Cuff-Buttons

  James Francis Thierry