treenail

What does treenail mean?

treenail means "a wooden peg that is used to fasten timbers in shipbuilding; water causes the peg to swell and hold the timbers fast".

How many syllables are in treenail?

treenail has 2 syllables and divides as tree-nail under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for treenail?

Close synonyms include trenail, trunnel. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is treenail a common word?

treenail is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for treenail come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.