handnail

plural handnails · alternative hand-nail

1. uncommonSynonym of fingernail.

   We compared our hands: even the corns and handnails were the same.

   1969, Aleksandr Abramov, Sergei Abramov, Horsemen from Nowhere, Mir Publishers, page 21

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   On opening the lead, the fleſh, hair, and toe and hand nails, were as perfect and ſound as though he had not been dead ſix hours.

   1772 February, Sylvanus Urban [pen name; Edward Cave], editor, The Gentleman’s Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, volume XLII, London: […] D. Henry, page 92

   He looked very young, almost a boy, and had a habit of biting off handnails.

   1965, Soviet Literature, page 53

   Localisation: Handnails, rarely footnails (infection not very common in India).

   1966, The Journal of the Christian Medical Association of India, page 397

   Deformed, dirtily stained and made extremely fragile, toenails as well as handnails of Kanemi Rice Oil Disease patients come off suddenly, to be replaced by new ones which face the same fate.

   1973, AMPO: Japan-Asia Quarterly Review, page 29

   It was also found that making artificial nails, which comprises making a model of handnails of each person, making a plastic cover for the nails[…]

   1991, Masami Hanabusa, An Analysis of Japanese Patent Law: Translated from the Original Treatise, Brunswick Publishing, →ISBN, page 32

   Synonyms: fingernail