Nailfast
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Nailfast is an adjective meaning Permanently attached.
Meaning
Permanently attached.
Example Sentences
She arranged that the great bedsteads and such other things as were nailfast and heirlooms, should remain for the use of the tenants, that they might the better entertain travelling Friends.
On 9 May 1631 Experience Mitchell sold to Samuel Eddy for £20 "his dwelling house, garden plot & fence, with all things nailfast in the same," reserving a portion of the garden plot [PCR 12:18].
For carrying structures concrete must be expected to be used in the future, and if the concrete can be made nailfast and with a cement of a considerably quicker setting, it will satisfy the demands of to-day.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include unnailed, quasipermanent, nonattachable, undetachable, nonpermanent, nonremovable.
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