"work like a nailer" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "works like a nailer",
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        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "working like a nailer",
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        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "worked like a nailer",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
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    },
    {
      "form": "worked like a nailer",
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        "past"
      ]
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        {
          "ref": "1834 September, Craven, \"Goodwood Races – Tuesday, July 29\", The Sporting Magazine (London) s. 2, vol. 9, no. 53, p. 388",
          "text": "Boyce was working away like a nailer at His Grace's colt, an exertion he might have spared himself , but that it is necessary to do something for one's money"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1918, George Barr McCutcheon, The City of Masks, New York: Dodd, Mead, page 191:",
          "text": "You might as well understand in the beginning that he'll have to work like a nailer for a good many years before he gets anywhere in the diplomatic service",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1947 January 13, Stewart H. Holnrook, “Lost Men of American History”, in Life, volume 22, number 2, New York, page 84:",
          "text": "Lee had to work like a nailer to get the awkward craft turned about, and then by great labor at the crank \"for the space of five glasses by the ships' bells, or two and a half hours,\" at last he arrived under the stern of what he felt certain was the Eagle.",
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        }
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      "glosses": [
        "To work very hard."
      ],
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        [
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          "work"
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(dated, simile) To work very hard."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "busy as a nailer"
        }
      ],
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        "dated"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "work like a nailer"
}

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      "form": "works like a nailer",
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        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    {
      "form": "working like a nailer",
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        "participle",
        "present"
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    },
    {
      "form": "worked like a nailer",
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        "past"
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    },
    {
      "form": "worked like a nailer",
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        "past"
      ]
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  "pos": "verb",
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    {
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    }
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        {
          "ref": "1834 September, Craven, \"Goodwood Races – Tuesday, July 29\", The Sporting Magazine (London) s. 2, vol. 9, no. 53, p. 388",
          "text": "Boyce was working away like a nailer at His Grace's colt, an exertion he might have spared himself , but that it is necessary to do something for one's money"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1918, George Barr McCutcheon, The City of Masks, New York: Dodd, Mead, page 191:",
          "text": "You might as well understand in the beginning that he'll have to work like a nailer for a good many years before he gets anywhere in the diplomatic service",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1947 January 13, Stewart H. Holnrook, “Lost Men of American History”, in Life, volume 22, number 2, New York, page 84:",
          "text": "Lee had to work like a nailer to get the awkward craft turned about, and then by great labor at the crank \"for the space of five glasses by the ships' bells, or two and a half hours,\" at last he arrived under the stern of what he felt certain was the Eagle.",
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        }
      ],
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        "To work very hard."
      ],
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        "(dated, simile) To work very hard."
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