nailmaking

English

Noun

nailmaking (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of nail-making
   • 1979, Amos John Loveday, The Cut Nail Industry 1776-1890; Technology, Cost Accounting and the Upper Ohio Valley:

     Manufacturers from 1608 to 1860, published in 1864, contains much information about the early history of nailmaking in the United States.

   • 1993, Theodore Cardwell Barker, John Raymond Harris, A Merseyside Town in the Industrial Revolution: St. Helens, 1750-1900, →ISBN:

     Ravenhead possessed several subsidiary departments, manufactured brass, and included a brass foundry and a nailmaking department.

   • 2010, Kym S. Rice, Martha B. Katz-Hyman, World of a Slave, →ISBN:

     In 1794, Thomas Jefferson decided to add nailmaking to his blacksmithing operation to supplement his income so that he could improve his agricultural lands.