"Toenailed": of nails

[Joel S. Berson]

Wilson, did your correspondent say "toenailed",
as your message quoted her, or
"tailnailed"?  'Cause I know what "toenail" (v.)
means.  If I care enough, I'll tell you.

Joel

At 1/22/2011 03:08 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:
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>from Storm Stories
>
>Spoken by a fifty-ish, white female survivor of the Great Malibu
>Canyon Mudslide:
>
>"I saw that two nails had been _toenailed_ into the wood [of a 2x4.]"
>
>Does anyone know what the verb _tailnail_ might mean, just off the top
>of his head?
>
>I can research it for myself, if I decide that I care enough. So,
>don't nobody else be was'in' dey time.
>
>--
>-Wilson
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