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Nailed vs Vailed - What's the difference?

nailed | vailed |

As verbs the difference between nailed and vailed

is that nailed is past tense of nail while vailed is past tense of vail.

As an adjective nailed

is having nails (often of a specified kind).

nailed

English

Verb

(head)
  • (nail)
  • Adjective

    (-)
  • Having nails (often of a specified kind).
  • a red-nailed finger

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    vailed

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (vail)
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    vail

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) profit; return; proceeds.
  • * Chapman
  • My house is as were the cave where the young outlaw hoards the stolen vails of his occupation.
  • (chiefly, in the plural, obsolete) Money given to servants by visitors; a gratuity; also vale .
  • (Dryden)

    Etymology 2

    Aphetic form of

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) submission
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To yield.
  • * South
  • Thy convenience must vail to thy neighbor's necessity.
  • (obsolete) To remove as a sign of deference, as a hat.
  • * Shakespeare
  • France must vail her lofty-plumed crest!
  • * Sir Walter Scott
  • without vailing his bonnet or testifying any reverence for the alleged sanctity of the relic
  • To let fall; to allow or cause to sink.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Vail your regard / Upon a wronged, I would fain have said, a maid!

    Etymology 3

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Verb

    (en verb)
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