Usually means: Metal nail used in doors.
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  1. doornail: Merriam-Webster
  2. doornail: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. doornail: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. doornail: Collins English Dictionary
  5. doornail: Vocabulary.com
  6. doornail: Wordnik
  7. doornail: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. doornail: Wiktionary
  9. doornail: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. doornail: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. doornail: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Doornail, doornail: Dictionary.com
  13. doornail: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Doornail: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. doornail: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. doornail: Rhymezone
  17. Doornail: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. doornail: FreeDictionary.org
  19. doornail: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. doornail: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. doornail: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. doornail: Idioms

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  1. Doornail: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (doornail)

▸ noun:  A nail with a wide head, traditionally used in the construction and ornamentation of wooden doors.

Similar:
door-nail, door nail, door-knob, dornock, door knob, dooring, dook, godroon, dern, dorn, more...

Opposite:
alive, animated, living

Types:
dead, finished, over, done, more...

Phrases:
dead as a doornail, (as) dead as a doornail, as dead as a doornail, deader than a doornail, more...



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Similar:
door-nail, door nail, door-knob, dornock, door knob, dooring, dook, godroon, dern, dorn, more...

Opposite:
alive, animated, living

Types:
dead, finished, over, done, more...

Phrases:
dead as a doornail, (as) dead as a doornail, as dead as a doornail, deader than a doornail, more...



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