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TREE-NAILS
TREE-NAILS, (gournables, Fr.) certain long cylindrical ,wooden pins, employed to connect the planks of a ship's side and bottom to the corresponding timbers.The tree-nails are justly esteemed superior to spike-nails or bolts, which are liable to rust, and loosen, as well as to rot the timber ; but it is necessary that the oak of which they are formed should be solid, close, and replete with gum, to prevent them from breaking and rotting in the ship's frame. They ought also to be well dried, so as to fill their holes when they are swelled with moisture. They have usually one inch in thickness to 100 feet in the vessel's length; so that the tree-nails of a ship of 100 feet long, are one inch in diameter; and one inch and a half for a ship of 150 feet.
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© Derived from Thomas Cadell's new corrected edition, London: 1780, page 298, 2003
Prepared by Paul Turnbull
http://southseas.nla.gov.au/refs/falc/1396.html