tunnels

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For instance, Dr. Riess said, he has found far more iron nails than he would have expected of a ship from this era, and far fewer of the wood fasteners called treenails, or trunnels.

From New York Times • Jul. 29, 2010

With these tools we went immediately to work, cutting down trees, of which we built a small bark of about eighteen tons, almost entirely fastened with trunnels, having very few nails.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08 by Kerr, Robert

Then commences the boarding or timbering of the sides; and for weeks, or months, the builder's maul is heard, as he pounds in the huge trunnels which fasten all together.

From Mind Amongst the Spindles by Various

First, the ground sill is a square of 20 ft., made of yellow pine sticks mortised together and pinned with stout trunnels.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" by Various

This craft of ours was like a small boat—built of soft light wood, with trunnels instead of bolts, and no iron on board except the anchors and one capstan.

From The Grain Ship by Robertson, Morgan