Nailed vs Vailed - What's the difference?
nailed | vailed |
(nail)
Having nails (often of a specified kind).
(vail)
(obsolete) profit; return; proceeds.
* Chapman
(chiefly, in the plural, obsolete) Money given to servants by visitors; a gratuity; also vale .
(obsolete) To yield.
* South
(obsolete) To remove as a sign of deference, as a hat.
* Shakespeare
* Sir Walter Scott
To let fall; to allow or cause to sink.
* Shakespeare
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)Adjective
(-)- a red-nailed finger
Anagrams
*vailed
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
* *vail
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- My house is as were the cave where the young outlaw hoards the stolen vails of his occupation.
- (Dryden)
Etymology 2
Aphetic form ofVerb
(en verb)- Thy convenience must vail to thy neighbor's necessity.
- France must vail her lofty-plumed crest!
- without vailing his bonnet or testifying any reverence for the alleged sanctity of the relic
- Vail your regard / Upon a wronged, I would fain have said, a maid!