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toenail
/ ˈtəʊˌneɪl /
noun
- a thin horny translucent plate covering part of the dorsal surface of the end joint of each toe ungualungular
- carpentry a nail driven obliquely, as in joining one beam at right angles to another
- slang.printing a parenthesis
verb
- tr carpentry to join (beams) by driving nails obliquely
Example Sentences
She looked down at her purple toenails and tensed her body, raising her left heel off its footrest for a half-second.
I knew I’d end the summer with fewer toenails than I’d started with.
Aardvarks Clipping Extraneous Toenails, Having Extremely Orgasmic Relations, Yearly!
Just keep in mind that melanoma tends to show up in hard-to-find areas on darker skin, like under hands and feet, inside the nose and mouth, and under fingernails and toenails.
If you ever put your hands on me again, I'm gonna snip your little nuts off with my toenail clippers!
Yesterday, Ezra Klein reported the strange case of a hospital that charged $1,206 to clip a toenail.
She takes care of our elderly in the neighborhood, if someone has toenail they can't clip, she'll do that for them.
Now winter was a dull inaction, a period of discontent, in which thought gnawed at him like an ingrowing toenail.
Foot-ball produces what may be called the endogenous or ingrowing toenail, stringhalt and mania.
So the horse stands on the end of his middle toe, and his hind hoof is his middle toenail.
A toenail, particularly twisted, has been traced through three generations, on the same foot and toe.
She complained exceedingly and for a long time about the thickening of a toenail, even after the thickened part had been removed.
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