This can be done after a fashion by simply nailing them flat on a wide board or a barn door.
A trough 6 inches square, made by nailing three boards together, should run the whole length of the pen on the back side; one end of the trough should be made several inches lower than the other, so that the water can be drawn off.
Prune fruit trees in mild weather or in moderate frosts, nailing only in fine weather.
Place the form upright in the pit, and secure it firmly by nailing strips of wood across the top of the box.
Put on the back, nailing securely to sides and shelves.
The method of fastening two joints at right angles is called toe-nailing--nailing obliquely--as shown in detail.
The body is put on by nailing the two sides to the dash-board, and the dash-board to the hood.
The hood may now be put together and fastened even with the front of the machine bynailing it from the bottom with brads.
The Correct Way to Hold the Chisel] The box was assembled by nailingtogether the sides and ends.
Two boys must work at this job, one holding the plumb and the other nailing the braces.
The braces were made by holding a piece of stock 4 inches x 7/8 inch in position and marking the slope with a pencil, sawing to pencil lines and nailing in position d.
Shortly after Fauchelevent had finished nailing on the upper plank, Jean Valjean had felt himself carried out, then driven off.
The end grain is usually protected by nailing on a strip of timber, chamfered on both edges.
It is used for nailingon framing to form partitions for rooms, offices, etc.
If treads move beneath the feet, additional nailing is needed and possibly new supports.
It was too late to return the wall board so new nailing strips, sixteen inches apart, had to be installed.
They're nailingon laths, Davie," the foreman answered.
And other carpenters had just begun nailing boards on to the outside of the up-and-down beams, and there was a great noise of hammering.
The other man had been doing what had to be done at the second pole: nailing on the wooden thing and putting the glass on.
Use the wire netting for the bottom of the box, nailing it on with the strips of wood.
A wooden trough may be made by nailing together boards six inches wide.
The bottom of the boat is now easily made by nailing boards crosswise, sawing off the projecting ends close to the curve of the side-boards.
Before nailing the boards together, the holes thus left in the bottom board should be supplied with a treadle platform, working on central side pivots.
They are generally made after the principles of the above described; either sewing or nailing the edges of the bark together, and smearing every joint and seam profusely with pitch, and adding gunwales, lining, and ribs.
Next make a platform of quarter-inch boards by nailing them together in two layers at right angles to each other.
Then stretch the skin, hair downwards, on a board, nailing it with tacks round the edge.
After being cramped together they were kept in position by nailing on transverse pieces 1 in.
To prevent this, before nailing get a friend to hold the two ends against the stem while you nail the other ends to the stern post.
The boat was completed by nailing on a couple of deck boards at each end.
On these extended pieces a slideway was formed for the window sash by nailing on two strips of wood about 3/4 inch square and over them a pair of wider strips projecting inward, so as to overlap the edges of the sash.
The sticks were now connected by nailing a 1/2-inch strip at the bottom, and braced by a couple of corner pieces.
These frames were now set in position, with their lower ends firmly planted in holes in the ground, and the tower was completed bynailing on a number of diagonal braces.
The frame thus formed was set up at the center of the span and temporarily held by nailing the lower tie piece to the working platform.
This required a bowsprit, but as we had little time to spare we used the jib-boom of the ice boat, nailingit to the deck beam of the canoe.
It was secured in the proper bent position by slipping the toe end of the shoe between the banisters on the back porch and nailing a cleat back of the heel end.
The frame of the boat was completed by nailing in place two deck beams of 1/2-inch square pine and four corner pieces between the gunwales and the bulkheads, so as to make an elliptical well hole or deck opening.
Across these two limbs, at about seven feet out, we laid our first girder, nailing it securely in place.
They were fastened firmly together by nailing a piece of board on the bottom and also on the outer side.
The car body was completed bynailing on the end pieces which overlapped both the flooring and the side walls.
The sidewalls were first clapboarded, because we were afraid the roof would not hold us until the framing had been strengthened by nailing on the siding.
Copper tacks were used for nailing the ribs in place, and these were long enough to be passed through the rib bands and clinched on the outside.
Following Uncle Ed's direction we fastened a strip of wood across the canoe about six feet from the bow, nailing it firmly to the gunwales.
Now with cross-cut saw cut across on this line; trim with block-plane before nailing; put one piece on each end, nailing through to the legs.
I know of no more secure and convenient method of holding the tent cover than this; but I would advise you to experiment on the reach and “full” of your cloth before nailing the buckles to the wood work.
Cut a second similar set of mouldings, nailing one set to top, the other to bottom of cabinet.
Before nailing on the back test the squareness of the frame in this way (unless your eye is very accurate; even then it is a good thing to get in the habit of measuring exactly): measure the diagonals from the opposite corner.
When nailing the axle blocks in place, put a dowel or lead pencil thru the holes to help in nailing the blocks exactly opposite each other.
When nailing the body to the rails, put the rear axle thru the holes to aid in keeping them opposite each other.
Then glue them to the other wheel and wind some string around tightly enough to hold this wheel while adjusting and nailing it.
When gluing and nailing the vanes in the arms, remember that one lies flat and the other nearly edgewise; also remember to make them balance.
The nailingcan be done while one arm of the wheels is held in the vise.
After preparing the eight sides, observe in Plate 11, the method of nailing four boards of equal width together to form a square,--each one is nailed to another one.
Sandpaper the flat sides before gluing and nailing them together.
Clean the wheel with the plane before nailing the paddles.
It requires careful work to make a good box, so be sure that all ends and edges are square and that corresponding parts are the same size before nailing it together.
To nail the boxes to the upright follow the suggestions on page 59 for nailing the floor of the weather cottage.
Small sharp-pointed nails with flat thin heads, longer than tacks, for nailing the scarphs of moulds and the like.
Small iron or copper tacks, used for nailing the leather on the pump-boxes.
Long narrow laths, or straightened hoops of casks, serving by the help of nailing to confine the edges of the tarpaulins, and keep them close down to the sides of the hatchways, in bad weather.
Those which are made of mixed metal, and which, being largely used for nailing on copper sheathing, are erroneously called copper nails.
Six months after the nailing of the theses at Wittenberg, he writes enthusiastically to a friend respecting the growing ferment in ecclesiastical matters, evidently regarding the new movement as a Kilkenny-cat fight.
O'Donnell, who suddenly found himself with greater things on hand than the nailing of a prisoner, ordered Brian left where he lay for the present, and had the drawbridge lowered in all haste.
There was always something on hand, and she worked as hard as the children, nailing up corrugated iron, sawing boards, cementing floors, or cutting bush.
When yo' came I was nailing up the laths for the vines outside, because we couldn't spare carpenters from the factory.
It was on this that Miss Sally had evidently found a foothold while she was nailing up a trellis-work of laths between it and the windows of the second floor.
A few feet from the back, with about four feet aisle between them, arrange two graves by using small boxes covered with dark cloth for the mounds and nailing at the head of each a white board for a stone.
Coquetilla begs me not to think of nailing Women upon their Knees with Manuals of Devotion, nor of scorching their Faces with Books of Housewifry.
He needed it badly, that post; it had stood there before, but had got blown down; he used it for nailing up notices and announcements.
I put the lock right and set it in its place again, and begannailing up the woodwork, which was shattered as before.
He began to picture to his mind, the process of putting his arm into the box and nailing tin there, where there was no room to work a hammer, and sighed.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nailing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
