2. To stud or boss with nails, or as with nails.

The rivets of your arms were nailed with gold.

Dryden.

3. To fasten, as with a nail; to bind or hold, as to a bargain or to

acquiescence in an argument or assertion; hence, to catch; to trap.

When they came to talk of places in town, you saw at once how I

nailed them.

Goldsmith.

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