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A hard wooden pin used for fastening timbers together.
‘Surprisingly to me, the old bridge didn't have trunnels, it was all bolted.’
‘The timbers are often cut and dressed by hand, jointed and interlocked in the traditional way, and fastened throughout with wood pegs called trunnels, or ‘tree nails.’’
‘We have used tree nails (trunnels) for frame fixing, stone ballast, and hand made rope stropped blocks.’
‘The Slavic tradition of Viking ship building such as from Northern Poland owes a lot to the trenail, and less to the use of iron.’
‘Boring holes in oak ships' timbers for the wooden pegs (treenails) or iron bolts required long augers of high strength.’