资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Nail \Nail\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Nailed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Nailing}.] [AS. n[ae]glian. See {Nail}, n.]
   1. To fasten with a nail or nails; to close up or secure by
      means of nails; as, to nail boards to the beams.

            He is now dead, and nailed in his chest. --Chaucer.

   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.

   4. To spike, as a cannon. [Obs.] --Crabb.

   {To nail} {a lie or an assertion}, etc., to detect and expose
      it, so as to put a stop to its currency; -- an expression
      probably derived from the former practice of shopkeepers,
      who were accustomed to nail bad or counterfeit pieces of
      money to the counter.