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In biology, a hard, flat, flexible outgrowth of the digits of primates (humans, monkeys, and apes). Nails are composed of keratin.
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Other trees have quite thick twigs like horse chestnut with its large, sticky, brown buds and scars where the leaves were attached that are shaped like a horseshoe and have small dots like horseshoe nails - hence the name of the tree.
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It's like the caveat from "For want of a nail"--the classic nursery rhyme in which the missing horseshoe nail causes the loss of the kingdom--but it's playing out for real in our post-9/11 world.
Our nation needs its high-tech nail by McKenna, Joseph F. / Tooling & Production
When you nail it to the stable wall, door or post, use old horseshoe nails to complete the effect.
E-Z horseshoe coat or reins wall hanger by Scharabok, Ken / Countryside & Small Stock Journal
 
 
 
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