bullen-nail

English

Etymology

bull (“large, having a large head”) + nail

Noun

bullen-nail (plural bullen-nails)

1. A nail with a round head and short shank, tinned and lacquered.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “bullen-nail”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)