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noun/neɪl/
Frequency rank: #3,175 of 20,003 in the WORDED list (wordfreq data)
Meaning
A thin pointed piece of metal hammered in to join things; the hard part on the finger.
Example sentence
He used his hammer to drive the nail into the wall.
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