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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Nail \Nail\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Nailed}; p. pr & vb n.
{Nailing}.] [AS. n[ae]glian. See {Nail}, n.]
1. To fasten with a nail or nails; to close up or secure by
means of nails; as to nail boards to the beams.
He is now dead, and nailed in his chest. --Chaucer.
2. To stud or boss with nails, or as with nails.
The rivets of your arms were nailed with gold.
--Dryden.
3. To fasten, as with a nail; to bind or hold as to a
bargain or to acquiescence in an argument or assertion;
hence to catch; to trap.
When they came to talk of places in town, you saw at
once how I nailed them --Goldsmith.
4. To spike, as a cannon. [Obs.] --Crabb.
{To nail} {a lie or an assertion}, etc., to detect and expose
it so as to put a stop to its currency; -- an expression
probably derived from the former practice of shopkeepers,
who were accustomed to nail bad or counterfeit pieces of
money to the counter.
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