Ulysses, as a shipwright well skilled in his craft, uses axe and adze and auger, and with the latter makes holes in the timbers he has squared and planed, and with trenails and dowels ties them together.
But the invention of trenails and dowels must have preceded the later practice, and have led the way to the building of such boats as those described by Herodotus (ii.
It would be very risky to depend upon trenails alone; one spike at least should be used to every chair.
Trenails are made out of well-seasoned hard wood, and are compressed by machinery.
For this purpose nothing seemed to be so well adapted as the oaken trenails which Mr Smeaton used in the erection of the Edystone Light-house.
A supply of these was accordingly got, at a much cheaper rate than the ordinary trenails of the carpenter, and which were also considered better for the purposes of the work.
Mr Smeaton’s plan in the use of trenails and wedges followed.
Due proportions of pozzolano-earth and clean sharp sand were made up in casks, and the oaken trenails and wedges in bundles; but the supply wanted of these materials was, in future, to be comparatively trifling.
In this design he has also followed Mr Smeaton in the use of oak-trenails to keep the stones in their places, while the work is in progress; but has differed in the mode of diminishing the interior-walls, as the building rises in height.
The trenailsof these stones having been drawn or bored out, the stones were laid a second time, when every precaution was taken to secure the mortar, by stuffing bagging-cloth round the joints, and loading them with bars of iron.
Splits so easily that it is better fastened with bolts or trenails than spikes.
It is fitted not only for exposed constructions, but for finer articles; hubs, pins, bolts, and trenails having no superiors.
In addition to this, a couple of holes having been bored through every piece of stone, one course was bound to another by oak trenails driven stiffly through, and made so fast that they could more easily be torn asunder than pulled out again.
The stones were also bored or fixed with trenails of oak and joggles of stone, after the manner of the Eddystone lighthouse, and in this state they were laid aside, and in readiness for being shipped in lighters for the rock.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "trenails" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
