Rose bud Nails, are small round headed nails, driven in the centre of the roses of the plates.
Counter sunk Nails, those that have flat round heads, sunk into the iron plates, so as to be even with the outside of it.
Streak Nails, are those which fasten the streaks to the fellies of the wheels.
Box pin Nails, small nails without heads, to pin the nave boxes, to the naves.
Stub Nails, are driven on the outside of the nave hoops, to keep them in their places.
Flat headed Nails, to fasten the locker or any sort of hinges.
Dog Nails, have flat round heads; and one part of the shank next to the head is also round.
To Nail, spike, or cloy, cannon, enclouer le canon, Fr. When circumstances make it necessary to abandon cannon, or when the enemy’s artillery are seized, and it is not however possible to take them away; it is proper to nail them up, in order to render them useless; which is done by driving a large nail or iron spike into the vent of a piece of artillery, to render it unserviceable. There are various contrivances to force the nail out, as also sundry machines invented for that purpose, but they have never been found of general use; so that the best method is to drill a new vent.
One Gasper Vimercalus was the first who invented the nailing of cannon. He was a native of Bremen, and made use of his invention first in nailing up the artillery of Sigismund Malatesta.
NAIRS, a native military tribe of the Malabar coast. They affirm that they are the oldest nobility in the world. Their pride on this supposition is greater than that of Rajpoots. In 1755, the king of Travancore, with the assistance of a French officer, called Launoy, disciplined 10,000 Naires in the method of European infantry.