clout-nail

noun

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.

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Meanings

nounclout-nail (plural clout-nails)

plural clout-nails

  1. obsoleteA 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.

    1866, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, volume 1, page 546
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