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attach something somewhere by means of nails; "nail the board onto the wall" collar: take into custody; "the police nabbed the suspected criminals" smash: hit hard; "He smashed a 3-run homer" nail down: succeed in obtaining a position; "He nailed down a spot at Harvard" horny plate covering and protecting part of the dorsal surface of the digits breeze through: succeed at easily; "She sailed through her exams"; "You will pass with flying colors"; "She nailed her astrophysics course" a thin pointed piece of metal that is hammered into materials as a fastener pinpoint: locate exactly; "can you pinpoint the position of the enemy?"; "The chemists could not nail the identity of the chromosome" a former unit of length for cloth equal to 1/16 of a yard complete: complete a pass
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Relics that are claimed to be the Holy Nails with which Christ was crucified are objects of veneration among some Christians. When Helena, mother of Constantine the Great discovered the True Cross in Jerusalem, the legend was told by and repeated by Sozomen and Theodoret that the Holy Nails had been recovered too. Helena left all but a few fragments of the Cross in the Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, but returned with the nails to Constantinople. ...
Ãâó: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nail_(relic)
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the unguis.
Ãâó: www.biology.lsu.edu/heydrjay/ThomasSay/terms.html
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Soft steel nails specially designed for attaching horseshoes to hooves. They are generally made with a four-sided, tapered shaft; the tip beveled on the inside, and a head shaped to seat into a horseshoe. A pattern or trademark is stamped into the inside face of the head to make it possible to distinguish the inside from the outside at a glance. Carpenter or masonry nails are not suitable substitutes for horseshoe nails. aka: Horse nails.
Ãâó: www.horseshoes.com/glossary/n/glsrn.htm
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Keratinized projection at the tips of the digits; usually short, flat and blunt.
Ãâó: www.humboldt.edu/~cmc43/glossary.htm
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