These heads are sometimes secured by treenails as well as by a simple lashing, as is shown by the holes through the tang of this specimen.
This of necessity is usually made of several pieces of wood scarfed together and fastened with treenails and whalebone lashings.
It has a frame of wood, which appears to be all of spruce, held together by treenails and whalebone lashings, and is covered with white-tanned sealskins with the grain side out.
Into the large end is fitted a flat bottom of thin pine, fastened in by four little treenails of wood.
The haft is peculiar in being a piece of reindeer antler which has been reduced in thickness by sawing out a slice for 8 inches from the butt and bringing the two parts together with four stout wooden treenails about 11/2 inches apart.
Treenails have been, and will be, frequently mentioned in the course of this work; it will, therefore, be well here to give directions for making and using them.
A row of spikes or treenails may be driven into the side of a cliff, a wall, or the trunk of a tree to climb up by.
They can be attached to any fixed point either by the use of treenails or lashing, as shown in the preceding illustration.
Either lashings of raw hide ortreenails may be used for securing the upper and lower axle pieces to each other.
Treenails (see "Treenails, to make") are then to be placed in the holes and driven home with a mallet or the head of the axe.
A strong fork, with treenailsdriven through holes bored in its ends, makes a very convenient yoke for carrying pails of water or other heavy weights, as shown in the accompanying illustration.
The structure was fastened by wooden treenails and metal through-bolts of copper or yellow metal.
The butt end of every plank was secured by a metal bolt, in addition to treenails securing it to every timber.
Tamarac hulls went sound for twenty years, and sometimes forty, especially when hardwood treenails were used--a treenail being a bolt that did the service of a nail in woodwork or a rivet in steel plating.
Tree-nailing of the floors and chines, and the keelson, is common, and sometimes both treenails and lashings are used in scarphs.
The heads of frames are commonly tenoned into the underside of the gunwales and are then either lashed or pegged with treenails of wood or bone to hold them in place.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "treenails" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
