English Dictionary

clout-nail

名詞

廃用

(obsolete) A wrought-iron nail heaving a large flat head, and used for fastening clouts to axletrees, plowshares, etc., also for studding timber, and for various purposes.

日本語の意味

「clout-nail」とは、大きな平らな頭をもつ打たれた鉄製の釘のことで、かつて車軸、犂のかじ、木材の補強など、さまざまな目的で用いられていました。

On the old farm, the carpenter drove a clout-nail through the plowshare to secure the protective clout before the spring plowing.

古い農場で、大工は鍛鉄製の大きな平頭の釘を鋤の刃に打ち込み、春耕の前に補強用の当て金を固定した。

意味（1）

(obsolete) A wrought-iron nail heaving a large flat head, and used for fastening clouts to axletrees, plowshares, etc., also for studding timber, and for various purposes.

They must have been light, for, reckoned by the hundred, the average is not very different from that of the hundred-weight of iron; and clout-nails must have been of moderate size, as the value varies very little from that of horseshoe-nails.

clout-nails （ plural ）