Definition of "nall" [nall]

• An awl. (noun)

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• "They are now attacking me because I have hit the nall on the head."
• "There was the horrid howl of a passing cannon-nall somewhere near; there were two jets of water from the surface of the sea, one on each quarter, and that was all Hornblower saw or heard of the broadside."
• "A cannon-nall had come skipping towards them over the surface, to make its final plunge a cable's length away."