toenailing
- 1Present participle and gerund of toenail.
She finished the wall frame by toenailing each stud to the bottom plate.
Toenailing gives a solid joint when you cannot drive a nail straight through.
Note
A carpenter's form, built on the verb that means driving nails or screws at an angle through one board into another. The toe's horny plate shares the spelling but not the meaning. The verb is transitive, so it takes an object and usually a destination: toenailing a stud to the plate. As a gerund it names the technique itself and can stand as a subject: toenailing holds where a straight nail cannot go.
toenailing is a form of toenail
toenail, verb: To fasten two pieces of lumber together by driving nails or screws at an angle through both boards. Full entry
- Spelling
- toenail → toenailing: add -ing
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