0 past simple and past participle of nail
1 to fasten something with nails:
2 to catch someone, especially when they are doing something wrong, or to make it clear that they are guilty:
3 to do something successfully:
Nailed either to small hand cards, or to large cylinders in carding machines, this process loosened matted wool without combing it straight.
Simple notions of insider and outsider are very firmly nailed.
So actually, unless your beloved is, as free, legally and personally, as the wind, your choice is still nailed down to your own immediate circle.
The beams were put into position and on them was nailed the double layer of boards, with 16 nails for each board.
These colours are firmly nailed to the mast with a competent exposition of the relevance of lifespan to social cognition in the opening chapter.
A few boards, nailed at random over the felt provided the only light touch in all the blackness.
We will communicate openly and often as to what we know, even if we have not nailed down all the details.
They cut down small pieces of wood and nailed them together.
