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coffin nail

noun as in butt

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They underwent DNA testing, bone analysis and the evaluation of archaeological evidence that was found, including 19th century coffin nails.

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The Romans hammered nails into doors to avert plagues and pounded coffin nails into thresholds to keep nightmares at bay.

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Human skulls are pierced with coffin nails and human bones are turned into Ouija board pieces; almost nothing is off-limits in the U.K.’s thriving online human remains trade, a Live Science investigation has found.

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Talk about a coffin nail in an already struggling downtown retail and residential core.

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The skeletons were lodged in a dirt wall, close to coffin nails that appeared centuries old.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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