nail header

noun

Etymology

From nail + header.

  1. inherited from *káput — “head
  2. inherited from *haubudą — “head
  3. inherited from *haubud
  4. inherited from hēafod — “head; top; leader; origin
  5. inherited from efd
  6. formed as header — “head + -er
  7. formed as nail header — “nail + header

Definitions

  1. A convex (or flat) piece of iron with hole(s) in it, used by a blacksmith in production…

    A convex (or flat) piece of iron with hole(s) in it, used by a blacksmith in production of iron nails.

  2. A machine used in industrial nail production.

  3. A nail heading machine used for making nail heads.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for nail header. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA