"nailfast" meaning in English

See nailfast in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Etymology: From nail + fast. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|nail|fast}} nail + fast Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} nailfast (not comparable)
  1. Permanently attached. Tags: not-comparable
    Sense id: en-nailfast-en-adj-jFOw-uNh Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
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          "ref": "1957, W. R. Simonsen, Johannes F. Munch-Petersen, Prefabrication in Denmark, page 100:",
          "text": "For carrying structures concrete must be expected to be used in the future, and if the concrete can be made nailfast and with a cement of a considerably quicker setting, it will satisfy the demands of to-day.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1880, Frances Anne Budge, Annals of the Early Friends: A Series of Biographical Sketches:",
          "text": "She arranged that the great bedsteads and such other things as were nailfast and heirlooms, should remain for the use of the tenants, that they might the better entertain travelling Friends.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
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          "ref": "1996, Robert Charles Anderson, Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633:",
          "text": "On 9 May 1631 Experience Mitchell sold to Samuel Eddy for £20 \"his dwelling house, garden plot & fence, with all things nailfast in the same,\" reserving a portion of the garden plot [PCR 12:18].",
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