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nail

verb as in fasten, fix with pointed object

verb as in capture, arrest

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He told the court he went into Glenfada Park to seek cover between the courtyard's maisonettes and remembered someone telling a youth to "put away" a nail bomb as "you'll only get people killed".

From BBC

County and plaintiff lawyers nailed down the $4-billion figure on Oct.

Highlighting her record as education secretary, Phillipson said she had fought "tooth and nail" for policies like the expansion of free school meals.

From BBC

In June, the department shared an image of Uncle Sam nailing to a wall a poster that read “Help yourself…and your country.”

From Salon

It took weeks to get a nail clipper, said one man, for their unit of dozens of men.

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

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