Definition of "nail-driver" [nail-driver]

• A machine for driving nails, used in box-making. The nails are put in the machine and are driven by a single stroke of a reciprocating plunger. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "The Hurt Locker is like having your heart operated on by a construction worker wielding a power pneumatic nail-driver."
• "My rifle was a neat, hair-triggered Billinghurst, carrying sixty round balls to the pound, a muzzle-loader, of course, and a nail-driver."
• "Watching Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker, which I just came out of, is like having your heart operated on by a construction worker weilding a power pneumatic nail-driver."