The large-bore spiral auger still denoted a mortise, tenon, and trenail mode of building in a wood-based technology; at the same time its near cousin, the wheelwright's reamer, suggested the reliance upon a transport dependent upon wooden hubs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woodworking Tools 1600-1900] Reference

Michael Wishart, a mason, stumbled over an uncut trenail and rolled on his back, and the ponderous crane fell upon him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lighthouse] Reference

The masons immediately thereafter proceeded to bore the trenail-holes into the course below, and otherwise to complete the one in hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Records of a Family of Engineers] Reference

The artificers landed at six a.m.; but, as no materials could be got upon the rock this morning, they were employed in boring trenail holes and in various other operations, and after four hours 'work they returned on board the tender.    From Wordnik.com.  [Records of a Family of Engineers] Reference

The carpenter and his men were meanwhile hard at work at the copper sheathing, making such progress that they were busy with their saws, dividing plank and trenail and working their way round the hole by the time the tide had risen sufficiently to drive them back, and then the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ocean Cat's Paw The Story of a Strange Cruise] Reference

A trenail into a two-inch plank as get over him and shirk your duty!.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Board the Esmeralda Martin Leigh's Log - A Sea Story] Reference

Listening below, I could hear the creaking and groaning of her timbers, the pistol – like cracks that told of the starting of a trenail or plank, and the faint, indefinable whispers of our ship’s distress.    From Wordnik.com.  [South: the story of Shackleton’s last expedition 1914–1917] Reference

The artificers landed at six a.m.; but, as no materials could be got upon the rock this morning, they were employed in boring trenail holes and in various other operations, and after four hours’ work they returned on board the tender.    From Wordnik.com.  [Records of a Family of Engineers] Reference